Word: profound
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Paris had been an untidy, shouting, excited city all that day, but towards nightfall there dropped down over the great stone buildings a profound silence. There is something calm in a busy city that is uneasy and restive, for it is the calm of men skulking in dark alleys and of vague shadows on brick walls. The strange lack of sound sent a stir through the King's Guard and they swaggered a trifie obviously as they strode about the streets that night...
...foreign affairs he is a stern nationalist who opposed the London Naval Treaty and the Debt Moratorium. To international questions he gives profound study. Unlike most isolationists, he likes to travel abroad, form his opinion by direct observation...
Queen Mary rented a safety deposit box fortnight ago. Apprised in advance of Her Majesty's intention, London's Chubb & Sons' Lock & Safe Co., Ltd. had prepared a gold key to the royal box. which Chairman Lord Hayter presented with a profound...
...leading authority in the world on the laboratory applications of high pressure and the behavior of solid and liquid materials under such pressure. He has attained the highest pressures on record in laboratory experimentation. An extremely prolific experimental investigator, he is at the same time a profound writer on the philosophical aspects of physics...
...claims made on its behalf. Many who attend are of that encyclopaedic turn of mind which, accepting as law the written page, declaims stereotyped phrases and frozen ideas; others are of the amiable twist that leads to futile bickering over details. The majority of those present have acquired their profound knowledge of affairs by studious cramming of text books and outline magazines; still more have never so much as visited their constituencies; and all are forced to comply in their discussions to the strict limitations imposed by the two day period and the carefully prearranged program. The mere physical character...