Word: profound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front cover) Legend tells that when great, good, wise Paul Bunyan was inventing and perfecting the logging industry in Real America, he thought up most of his profound ideas and amazing devices all by himself. But now and then there would be something that stumped him, and besides, keeping the great 100,000-page ledgers of his business took up too much of his time. So Paul Bunyan was a very happy man the day he found John Rogers Inkslinger sitting bemused on a cliff with one foot damming up the Twin Rivers, and added him to his camp crew...
British Bricks. More suave than any other reply, that of the British Foreign Office began by informing M. Briand that his "proposals" have been "examined with profound interest." Next "fullest sympathy" was expressed for "closer economic cooperation" which was more heavily stressed in the original "United States of Europe" than it is today. Finally, however, the British landed like a ton of paving stones from Trafalgar Square upon the European Union because of its resem- blance to the League of Nations...
...President Roosevelt a quarter-century ago visited an old southern city (his mother, Martha Bulloch, came from a fine old Georgia family) where an ambitious hostess contrary to the orders of the reception committee, persuaded him to enter her home on the pretext that he would thereby give profound pleasure to an old family slave on the brink of death. The President, all innocent of the trick, was her brief guest, took a cup of tea from an ancient Negro servant. Claiming that the family of the President's hostess had owned no slaves, that she herself had hired...
William Morton Wheeler: Eminent as zoologist and Dean of the Bussey Institute. Profound student of the social life of insects, who has shown that they also can maintain complex communities without the use of reason...
...impossible to say anything out of the ordinary about this book. That is a confession which ought to damn it from the start. In reviewing so many of these profound studies of adolescence it has become irksome to repeat the only catch words which can be repeated--realism, frankness, and so on. It has finally dawned upon me that the story of a man's emotional strivings and strugglings are bound to be all these things. They make good reading but do not last, for any other true story, confession, or what you will, has the same appeal...