Word: profound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...useful or, as in chemical warfare, fatal to society. In the field of the arts, however, this type of research is absolutely inappropriate. Most of the necessary cataloguing and indexing has been done. There will always remain, however, a place for books upon great authors and upon movements of profound importance. But such books are the fruit of a lifetime of patient and understanding contemplation, during which the scholar has become of the very flesh and blood of his subject. The scientific method of minute research has only a subordinate place here, and calls for no great ability...
...November 21, 1932 President A. Lawrence Lowell tendered his resignation to this Board, in June he presided for the last time over the Commencement exercises, and on September 1, he turned over to his successor the direction of the University. With profound sorrow the Harvard community realized that this was to be the last year of Mr. Lowell's wise leadership. It is unnecessary for me to enumerate the many accomplishments of his administration. Almost twenty thousand men have graduated from Harvard College during the presidency of Mr. Lowell, and these alumni can testify to the marvelous change he wrought...
...weeks ago war between Japan and the Soviet was regarded as inevitable in the near future and likely to occur in 1935; but since that time a profound and far-reaching change has supposedly taken place in Japanese foreign policy. The outward sign of this is the retirement of General Araki as Minister of War and his replacement by a man, who, in all likelihood, will confine himself to the army and make no attempt to interfere in purely political problems. Japan from now on, according to Premier Saito and Foreign Minister Hirota, will pursue a pacific foreign policy...
...modern specialist, but to the old-fashioned family doctor. Let the young medical students take him for their model. The grand old general physician is what I have in mind as an ideal. A family confidant, the general doctor can size up a person as a whole. He has profound wisdom and knowledge of character, born of experience. . . . Specialists are useful occasionally...
...Economics of the Recovery Program," a profound treatise on the administration's measures, recently published by seven Harvard pundits, was severely scored yesterday in a letter addressed to "The Seven Wise Men of Harvard" and signed by one W. M. Dyer of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, whose name unfortunately cannot be found...