Word: profound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...above is hasty, vague, and incomplete, but that's generally the way with first impressions. Perhaps future reports will be more profound and will emphasize the more important aspects of Council activity...
Cabled TIME'S London Bureau Chief John Osborne: "Perhaps Bevin's words seemed flat to his British hearers because so much of his history had already been made. Part of the profound change that has overtaken Britons in the last year has been the growing awareness that they are Europeans, no longer islanded in glorious and superior detachment. Recognition of Russia as Britain's enemy and European Communism as the enemy's instrument has proceeded apace for many months; the process is now well nigh complete...
...middle of the Old Testament (as they are in the Hebrew Bible) to the end. This, says Author Paterson, was a sound instinct, for "those prophets seem to be standing on the tiptoe of expectation, waiting for 'Him who is to come.' . . . For there is a profound organic connection between the Old Testament and the New, and nowhere more than in the prophets do we feel the truth of St. Augustine's words: 'In the Old Testament the New lies concealed: In the New Testament the Old lies revealed...
...which "has committed itself in authoritative declarations and by positive acts to a policy plainly subversive of religious liberty as guaranteed by the Constitution." But, announced the group carefully: "As Protestants we can be called anti-Catholic only in the sense in which every Roman Catholic is anti-Protestant. Profound differences ... of religious faith . . . have no relevancy in the pursuit of our objectives. . . . The issue of the separation of church and state has arisen in the political area, and we propose to meet it there...
...emigrants swapping reminiscences of the old country. But in most other matters they are temperamentally total strangers. Studious Critic Daiches is chiefly interested in showing that if Stevenson had not been cut off in his prime, he would have parked his little scooter and become as profound and dignified as Sophocles and Shakespeare. Romantic Novelist Stevenson (a tubercular who was to die in Samoa at 43) was chiefly interested in enjoying the lively, glamorous places to which his scooter carried...