Word: profound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seems to me that your authority for Lenin's warning against Stalin [TIME, Sept. 28 ] is hardly sufficient to justify your stating it as a finite and established fact. In view of the overwhelming evidence of Lenin's complete confidence in Stalin as compared to his profound mistrust of Trotsky, does it not seem probable at Krupskaya Lenin, sympathizing for reasons her own with the Trotsky-Zinoviev-Kamenev combine against Stalin and knowing her position to be inviolate under any circumstances, made a few alterations in her husband's testament...
...Crimson stalwarts who are expected to bring home the points so necessary for a win (profound statement) are Captain Hayden Channing, Charley Worth, George Gardnor, Johnny Day and Alden Haupt, a pair of nowcomers, Henry Marcy, Cyrus DeCosier, and John Erhard...
Those poor, unfortunate inanities of Harvard 1911 have my profound sympathy. They, with their fellow Yale and Princeton men, represent the shattered remnants of the Puritanism that Santayana has so aptly described. The really sad thing is that they are too damn stupid to work the system out to its logical end. . . . They prefer to stay shut up in their own self complacence, completely oblivious of the changing world about them...
...must be credited with the intelligence of not stifling its theatrical ventures at the start through making them chauvinist messengers of the New Deal. So frank, if not profound, is the discussion of contemporary disorders, that the sponsors of the play have had to disclaim its points of view. But "Class of '19 does not assail capitalism; Rooseveltism, assumed in this play, dispite Hearst, to be capitalistic; or even Americanism as defended by that staunch old patriot...
...Spain speak to Europe and the whole world and proclaim once more to what extent the very foundations of all order, of all culture, of all civilization, are being menaced. This menace, it must be added, is all the more serious, more persistent, more active, by reason of a profound ignorance and a disclaiming of the truth by reason of the truly satanic hatred against God and against humanity. . . . Such trials have been . . . unfailingly accompanied by universal propaganda intent on subjecting the whole world to those absurd and disastrous ideologies with which they have seduced . . . the masses, aiming at nothing...