Word: profound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rivaling in importance the discovery of micro-organisms as causative factors in disease. . . . It would be misleading to suppose that thiamin is the only vitamin which possesses a universal or nearly universal function in living cells. . . . [But] the lack of no other accessory substance leads to so early, so profound and so universal disaster...
Said Mr. Brown to Dr. Jessup: "No one is more aware than yourself of the profound changes in economic and social thinking that have taken place in this country during the past decade. . . . American business is today confronted . . . with new social responsibilities . . . with new concepts. . . ." The company's principal purpose, Mr. Brown added, would continue to be the making of profits (for 1937: $4,100,909). Observers who have had their eye on Mr. Brown's concern for social responsibilities (TIME, March 21) put Dr. Jessup's appointment down as a well-meaning gesture, waited...
When the bloody bubble of Dublin's Easter Rising fizzled out in 1916, it left a number of ruined buildings, a few snipers still forlornly shooting from housetops, a profound wave of disillusionment in the Irish revolutionary movement. Last week, a young Irishman named Louis Lynch D'Alton dramatized the change in revolutionary hearts in a bitter first novel that showed how two Irishmen reacted to the Easter Week fiasco. To Revolutionist Andrew Kilfoyle, who fought in it, the Rising was sickening, "a revolt of poets and schoolmasters," inept, ill-planned, melodramatic, futile. It convinced him that next...
...International Relations, courses 18 and 30 on Contemporary International problems in Europe and Asia, were recommended for Sophomores or Juniors; Hopper, considered interesting but not profound, gives both. 14 on Nationalism in International Relations was also recommended, and Government 4 on International Law was called one of the best in college because of Professor Wild. It requires a good deal of work, such as writing reports, and should not be taken before Senior year. A new course in American Diplomatic History will be given this fall...
...Listen Little Girl Munro Leaf, 32-year-old author of Ferdinand (bestselling children's book), avoids these hazards by dismissing moral and emotional considerations at the outset, tells his girls what they can expect to find in Manhattan in the way of jobs, rent, food & lodging. A profound and sympathetic student of Manhattan womanhood, Author Leaf also discusses such feminine concerns as the price of stockings and the number of pairs a girl needs, without giving his book a housewifely air, although he occasionally seems slightly embarrassed by such topics. And although he paints no lurid pictures...