Word: profound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent months Carl David Anderson of California Institute of Technology has been experimenting with a peculiar particle which showed up in the cosmic rays reaching earth. It appeared that this "X-particle" had a considerably higher mass than m, so Dr. Anderson, who had a natural and profound respect for the constancy of m, was quite sure it was not an electron. Jabez Curry Street of Harvard measured the X-particle's mass at 130 times m, although he said it might be subject to a 25% error either...
...plant, nor the $2,000,000 gross explain the great Quality X in Walt Disney, Inc., the thing which in the past decade has sent thousands of feet of wonderful little animals and fairybook people dancing out into the world-people and animals whose appeal is so profound and so pervasive that they are loved by literally everybody everywhere...
...Profound Joy." Premier Chautemps and Foreign Minister Delbos wore the most satisfied smiles imaginable as they arrived in Paris, greeted at the station by cheering Socialist and Radical Socialist adherents. "On every subject we have been able to meet the English!" was beaming Premier Chautemps' way of summing up. "It is with profound joy that I am able to say that on all topics we found ourselves in complete agreement...
...youth organizations -hitherto 100% Marxist. This tendency the Spanish Lenin has especially denounced. Last week, appeared a third paradox, a manifesto issued by Rightist Generalissimo Francisco Franco as the civil war entered its 17th month: "Our victory will bring a healthy redistribution of wealth! We are carrying out a profound revolution of the social order, inspired by the principles of the Catholic church. The number of rich persons will diminish and there will be less poverty...
...involved witticism to deliver. Said he: "In times of classical antiquity there were two things unpredictable: the way of a man with a maid, and the way of an eagle on a rock (which way it will fly)." The last decade, according to Senator Ashurst, has added another equally profound human uncertainty: "What will Congress...