Word: profound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happiest men today, says Russell, are the scientists. "Many of the most eminent of them are emotionally simple, and obtain from their work a satisfaction so profound that they can derive pleasure from eating, and even marrying." Russell thinks happiness is not a gift received but a conquest to be won. If you want to be happy you must work for it, acquire zest, congenial work, impersonal interests, freedom from worry, resignation. "The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest...
...Professor Lake, lecturing before a class of about two hundred, read, as is his custom, two well known fables from the Old Testament, and read them with such a depth of feeling and expression that during the pause of fully ten seconds which followed his words there was a profound and absolute silence; then he spoke, resuming his lecture, and there followed a croaking of chairs, a rustling of books and papers, and the almost audible feeling of relief which is born in an audience after a prolonged emotional reaction...
...needs. Living today in the same house where 30 years ago he first attracted the students who later became his apostles, he still is intellectual dictator to those about him. Even his critics, who do not admit the value of his psychoanalytic theory, agree that he has had a profound influence in giving a new emphasis, a new method of approach to human problems. In the darkened consulting room of his clinic, he receives a few patients, many of them distinguished doctors from all over the world who come to learn his method of attacking the unconscious by the free...
Then came the Speech from the Throne, which according to custom was written by Prime Minister MacDonald, read by the Lord Chancellor Lord Sankey. His Majesty was made to express "profound satisfaction" with the results of the London Naval Conference,? evacuation of the Rhineland, reparations settlement at The Hague. He concluded with earnest prayers and pious hopes?and Parliament was over...
...peace movement. . . . Thanks to the Senate's bold initiative, the ratification of the Treaty by the other signatory powers will be greatly speeded up. There has been a certain hesitation in most nations to commit themselves to treaty adherence before others had made their attitude clear. We praise the profound wisdom of the American Senate. Our faith in the Treaty has never wavered...