Word: profound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mere "vocal wind" but apt, powerful and profound is "goldplated anarchy," synonym for rugged individualism" [TIME, Sept 10]. Can this be a new rallying cry, a new "Battle Cry of Freedom?" Is this the plain name for that camouflaged something which the diehards fight so tenaciously to hold...
Schedules. In 1926, the Harvard Lampoon published a cartoon which implied that Princeton men were pigs. The result of this appalling insult was one of the most profound and bitter academic breaks in the history of sport. For four years, no Princeton teams played Harvard at any sport. After four years, contests in everything but football were arranged. Last winter, officials of both universities held an epochal meeting. The result was an agreement whereby Princeton will play Harvard at football for the first time in eight years at Cambridge, Nov. 3. Since Army and Navy settled their historic differences...
...South Hadley; the pictures President Woolley brings to the college are usually old, often dull. This year girls may smoke at specified times and places, a major concession on the part of Miss Woolley who has long believed that "no lady would smoke." Mount Holyoke girls feel a profound respect for Miss Woolley and are proud to have her as their president, but they are a little tired of hearing about disarmament...
...though visible, is not noticed." Plain readers may find the ground a little flat, the poetry a little uncertain of its feet, but they will give Author Johnson high marks for an ambitious effort. More cynical critics will rate Now in November as big talk, too precocious to be profound...
...accuse Author Faulkner of abetting James Joyce in attempting to restore the pun as an honest figure of speech; but most readers will take these and similar skylarkings with a hop, skip and a jump. As lively and tuneful as a good musicomedy, Friends and Romans is no more profound, but it is cheaper and better entertainment...