Word: profound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...salacious best-seller called A Naked Woman. The book is a case history of a wife who knows how to amuse herself with other men when her husband is out of town. When he learns of A Naked Woman's authorship, all -Philip Frampton's profound sex philosophy flies out the window. He distributes black eyes among a trio of males suspected of providing material for his wife's book, receives one himself, becomes convinced of Josie's fidelity as the curtain falls...
...filled with gratitude to the Government. Men in the building industry carry in their hearts a genuine and profound appreciation. I have always been a rank Republican, but I take my hat off to President Roosevelt...
...toward definition or reality until it draws forward-looking educators throughout the nation to its side. To that end it began last week to publish a monthly magazine called The Social Frontier. Besides sonorous editorials on its Cause, the first issue contained several readable articles by sympathetic oldsters. Venerable, profound Philosopher John Dewey began a discussion of Education and Social Reconstruction with a quotation from Amos 'n' Andy. Sociologist Henry Pratt Fairchild thwacked the New Deal - for its conservatism. Historian Charles Austin Beard urged a democratic distribution of property. Editor of The Social Frontier and spearhead...
...deeply moving portrayal of the changing pattern of small-town life in the American Middle-West. Ruth Suckow does not look upon her people with the sophisticated, cynical, despising eyes of Sinclair Lewis, for she knows them well and has a true understanding of their problems and a profound sympathy for them in their struggle to adapt themselves to the basically altered conditions of modern life. The old security of farm, home, and church is gone and in its place there is a new and confusing set of standards and ideals. It may be a simple thing for the nomadic...
...history of one of the European countries can gain at best a second-hand and unsatisfactory command of the field by study in America. A year of study in the country of his choice would give the student a knowledge of the people and their customs, and a profound and intimate command of the field. With such training the language requirements could be met sincerely, not by the current method of a hasty interview with a cramming school. The cultural aspects of foreign travel and residence need no elucidation here, but rather a more general participation by American college students...