Word: profound
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Chicago's Archeologist James Henry Breasted. Subsequent lectures have included physicists, psychologists and geneticists. In calling another physicist to deliver the Messenger messages, instead of a great economist as "our political, business and social life" of .today might have suggested, Cornell's officials had profound considerations. Not the least profound was their chance to get Sir Arthur Eddington, whose position approaches the unique...
...Liddell Hart, military expert, places Lawrence's Arabian campaign in relation to the rest of the World War and gives the clearest exposition of it extant. He deprecates the view that Lawrence's success as a leader of irregular troops came from innate genius, calls Lawrence a profound student of tactics, a military thinker. Basis of Lawrence's tactical scheme was to avoid battles, destroy Turkish material and morale. Says Lawrence: ". . . Suppose we were an influence (as we might be), an idea, a thing invulnerable, intangible, without front or back, drifting about like gas? . . . To make...
...James Joyce in creating a mature racial conscience, while as an individual he is closer to the soil than Joyce ever was. The stripped and ungainly realism frequent in contemporary novels is not forced on a man with such a background. "A Nest of Simple Folk" is a profound and beautifully written book in itself, and leaves one with the expectation of even finer things to be written by its author...
...misled by the man's egotism. Although he loses no opportunity to remind his readers of his special merits, Pound has been an important force in Anglo-American literature. His innovations have been genuine improvements in the technique of poetry; by virtue of them, he has exerted a profound influence on several contemporary poets. He has managed somehow to be in the forefront of every revolt from tradition which has not been revolting in every sense of the word...
...this had a profound effect on the various nations which so loudly deplored the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. France was expected to recognize Ta Manchu Tikuo, was offering Japan a 15-year credit for locomotives, rails, other equipment for the South Manchuria Railway. Germany longed to do likewise, but refrained from a definite commitment until the Nazi Government could decide whether it would make more money by recognizing Ta Manchu Tikuo than it would lose by insulting the Nationalist Government of China. Even the U. S., most outspoken under the Hoover regime in its criticism of Japan's Manchurian...