Word: profound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That pulses in your halls had depths profound...
Shocked into a state of profound grumpiness were the well-heeled members of the Bond Club of New York a month ago when SECommissioner William Orville ("Bill") Douglas in the course of a luncheon address opined that continuity of relationship between corporation and investment banker was of "unestablished value to anyone except the banker" (TIME, April 5). Equally heretical were other Douglas views. Being more circumspect than some of their industrialist clients, the bankers did not rush to microphone and rostrum with denunciation and alarm...
...back from Chateau d'If (which takes about forty minutes by boat) I sat next to three girls who looked French but spoke Greek. They praised Dumas' imagination, showed traces of profound interest in the ancient "Massilia" during the Gallo-Roman epoch, then turned girlish and discussed men: Frenchmen were too short, but nice to be gay with; Germans were rough but make good husbands; Englishmen are stiff and cold; Americans are rich-but oh, so very young! Yet how good it would be to meet some men, no matter from where. "Come, Loretta. you are nearest, shall we commence...
Governor Hurley exempts teachers from this class of minorities, when they act from "honest convictions." In that case he entertains "profound and abiding respect...
...from seven years to life in prison, she returned to her cell, told a jail matron: "I can sit in this chair, or lie down on this bed and kill myself by strength of will power." So saying, she selected the bed, went into a fit of sulks so profound that half a dozen solemn psychiatrists could not even agree on a name for it, variously calling it "hysterical fugue," "split personality," "dementia praecox," "triumph of the subconscious," "self-imposed hypnosis," "voluntary stupor...