Word: profound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...compensation, and old age benefits, and proved their necessity as well as their justification, he reverted to the spirit of the Act. "It is the greatest piece of social welfare legislation which this nation has adopted in many a generation. As time goes on, we shall increasingly realize the profound importance of this first step towards security for the individual and the national seenrity...
...MOONS RIDEOVER-Carl Zuckmayer-Viking ($2.50). Smoothly written, movingly sentimental, pleasantly profound tale of a temperamental household of castle-dwellers in the Austrian Tyrol...
...examination period draws out to a lingering death at the end of the week, the slaughtered host of undergraduates will depart for mountain or urban resorts for a few days, nursing the profound desire never to look a blue book in the face again. But the blue books turned in during the last fortnight represent the distillation of four months of work, plus the soul-searing heat of cramming. Yet in a number of courses the chance to see a blue book after it has been written is altogether denied, or made so hard that the exploratory genius...
After several days of profound insulin shocks, the patient is allowed to rest, free from insulin, for one to three days. Then he is put through a "polarization" or tapering off course of gradually diminishing doses of insulin. Summed up Dr. Sakel: "The results do not depend upon the size of the dose of insulin, but rather on the proper termination at the right time of each shock. ... I should like to add that I used to think that only recent cases would show a satisfactory response to treatment. But later I realized that in some chronic cases...
...West, urging the one to stay off the air, the other to retire from the cinema. Two full-page editorials on the U. S. National debt and the fate of Europe gave notice that, for the sounding-board of Publisher Payson & Associates, no subject may be considered too profound...