Word: profound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smaller colleges after the fashion of Oxford and Cambridge. And it may well be that salvation lies that way. Certainly the system seems to work in England, for like it or not, English universities leave certain characteristic marks on their graduates. One thing they have which must exert a profound effect upon the undergraduates--age and tradition...
Surgery. Spinal anesthesia by new chemicals. Anesthesia per rectum by ether with olive oil, particularly useful where exophthalmic goitre makes a patient nervous. Human liver found to exercise a profound protective influence against harmful products entering the blood by way of the intestinal canal. Recognition that brain tumors may develop suddenly and rapidly, that the electric cautery knife makes possible more complete removal of brain and spinal cord tumors...
Serena Blandish. It is the conviction of stupid people that only that which is solemn may be profound and that to seem satirical is to be unsympathetic. Partly for this reason, Serena Blandish will doubtless be misappreciated and en joyed by the well-decorated people who will go to see it. Its inadequacy as a play, however, is not caused by a fallacy in attitude...
...great social changes of the later eighteenth and nineteenth centuries gave rise to profound political transformations. The industrial revolution radically upset the economic system and established industrial and commercial capital side by side with wealth in land. This in turn involved the decline of the old feudal aristocracy and the rise of a middle class. It was but natural that this natural class, as it became influential should desire some voice in the affairs of government. In time it evolved a political theory known as liberalism and based on the principles of individualism, liberty and free competition. In the countries...
...begs Ellen not to tramp the path of dalliance. Ellen is on the verge of another affair just as she learns that her mother, running off from Husband III, has killed herself. On hearing the news Ellen screams, "Isn't she priceless?" But the effect is so profound that Ellen tightly closes windows and doors and the curtain falls to the sibilant sound of escaping gas, hissing Ellen into Kingdom Come...