Word: profound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...right when you say I "was for the new commander's reputation as a thoroughly experienced, altogether first-class Navy man," although you do not fully express it. The fact is Vice Admiral Hepburn is known as a first-rate seaman; an indefatigable worker; a profound thinker; a man of keen judgment and a master of his profession, who, by training, experience and professional attainments, is thoroughly fitted to be Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet. May I ask why this stuff about "selling the navy out to the British?" I don't know what...
...When I Am King!" According to the King's devoted ranching neighbor, biographer and friend in Canada, Mr. Frazier Hunt, Edward VIII is a profound fatalist about his own life and personal affairs. As Prince of Wales, however, he would often vehemently say of his inheritance: "Things will be different when I am King!" Great problems of the Kingdom and the Empire to which Edward VIII has for years given his best thought are: 1) how to promote the sale of British goods; 2) how to combat unemployment; 3) how to minimize the clash of British classes...
Dark of eye and square of jaw, effective William Esty is an amateur magician. He has a profound knowledge of the human hunger for health and wellbeing, having been gassed while behind an A. E. F. machine gun. This experience, plus his instinct for broad-gauge ballyhoo, has made him a modern reincarnation of the oldtime medicine show "doctor." The therapeutic qualities he first discovered in his cigaret program ("Get a Lift With a Camel") are now to be noted in tea. If the $500,000 test campaign shows results after a year, Mr. Esty confidently expects to develop...
Carie had militant Protestantism in her blood. Her grandparents had emigrated to the U. S. from Holland for conscience's sake, settled in West Virginia to bring up their progeny in the fear of the Lord.Carie grew up to be pretty and proper, but she had a profound fire in her that knew the local youth for the chaff they were. At an impressionable age she met and married a zealous young preacher, for the bad reason that they both felt called to be missionaries. Hand in hand they went through the wood-to China. Here Carie began...
...hotel suite in high excitement, canceled half a dozen appointments, summoned a beautician to fix her bobbed hair. That evening by special invitation she went back to the White House for 8 o'clock dinner and the glittering Diplomatic Reception which followed. Clearly Helen Hayes had made a profound impression upon the Presidential family. And critics who watched her Washington tryout forecast another hit for her when Victoria Regina opens on Broad way this week...