Word: profound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mental and physical labor. "Those who think the difference between mental and physical labor can be eliminated by lowering the technical level of engineers and technicians are absolutely incorrect. Only petty bourgeois jabberers can think this about Communism." These words, perfectly unintelligible to millions of proletarians, held the most profound interest this week for the world's makers of Revolution. Most of them have been told and have told the masses that already in Russia it is a case of "To each according to his needs." Instead Stalin, urging the Capitalist speedup, said bluntly that in Russia today...
Last week virtually every man, woman & child in the civilized world had reason to hail Dr. Leroy Leo Hartman of Columbia University with profound, personal gratitude as an authentic Hero of Science. What hundreds of researchers had worked toward since dentistry began, what millions of dentists and their patients had ardently desired, Dr. Hartman had achieved. After 20 years of experiment he had destroyed the threat of the world's most dreaded torture instrument, the dentist's drill, made painless dentistry at last a fact...
...stricken with infantile paralysis, which rendered his legs almost useless. As a result, he was forced to give up his vocation of fire insurance inspector, and so turned his attention to various Asiatic languages. He now has a reading knowledge of Sanskrit, Hindustani, Persian, Hebraic, and a profound understanding of Arabic...
...profound admiration for Germany," cried the Bishop of Chichester. "Surely the great masses of the German people themselves abhor the policy of persecution...
...community men who care about ideas and ideals. They are the special guardians of the nation's cultural heritage. They are the places to which the intellectual leadership of a democracy must always resort for inspiration and training. They are centers of intellectual independence and progress, radiating a profound and immeasurable influence on the character and development of the nation...