Word: profound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides this desire to improve the academic mind, the action of the University shows that it is guarding the ancient, profound, and typically American respect for the law. The pursuit of happiness is man's inalienable right: to get caught for its obviously unpatriotic...
...less frequent. How much more valuable would be the right sort of co-education in preparatory schools. The idea, as being developed in several schools notably the Cambridge school in Weston has already shown signs of success. It may be that the results of these experiments will have a profound effect on the future of education...
Significance? Not since the Soviet Foreign Minister, Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, threw at Geneva his first Peace Bomb* and his Second? had there been so profound a sensation among professional Peace workers. Instantly the French Plan, like the Russian Plan, was damned and doomed?though, of course, everyone had to be infinitely more polite to M. Tardieu than they had been to Comrade Litvinov. The German delegation, frankly skeptical, protested that this was a disarmament conference, and where was there any Disarmament in M. Tardieu's words? They called the French security plan "a beautiful fable lacking a moral." With fine...
...blow that will have its repercussions. One of the most profound of American traditions is that of the glad hand, and the spectacle of a harassed individual going through the ritual of shaking hands with a line of free, independent citizens has become a symbol of the Democratic spirit. The story of the retired farmer, who has been first in line at every New Year's reception for a half-century, indicates the attraction which the ritual has for the popular mind. Until it is re-instituted, there will be very little in a trip to Washington for John Robinson...
Prohibition. Governor Roosevelt is a Wet who has declared for the repeal of the 18th Amendment. Yet, with his eye on the White House, he would like to soft-pedal Prohibition as an issue and retreat into the mists of referenda. Widespread is the belief that, lacking profound Wet convictions, he is deliberately weaseling to woo Dry Democratic support from the South at the convention and in the election. He blocked attempts last year for a Wet declaration by the Democratic National Committee. The Roosevelt-Smith split grew out of opposing viewpoints on Prohibition?one for an honestly militant stand...