Word: profound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world's most efficient farmhands: it does an enormous amount of soil conservation. Toiling underground, the hard-working worms in one acre can eat, pulverize, fertilize, aerate and move ten tons of earth in a year's time. Charles Darwin, who had a profound respect for the earthworm, doubted whether "there are many other animals which have played such an important part in the history of the world...
...Mahdists like Mohamed Ahmed on the other, have failed to capture it. Nearly all Moslems still hold the Koran so infallible that all translations are considered heresies. Says Oxford's Islamic Scholar H. A. R. Gibb, in his new book, Modern Trends in Islam: "Liberalism . . . has struck no profound roots in the Moslem mind...
Beacon in a Fog. While most other Protestant publications were displaying their intellectual poverty either by clinging stubbornly to dogma or retreating headlong before the advance of secularism, the Christian Century remained stimulating and profound; it eventually became a beacon of level-headedness in a fog of misty thinking...
...these 16 profound and erudite essays (which are now collected in book form for the first time), readers will find themselves standing at the latter end of a span that covers 200 years of intellectual and social development, and stems from cultural traditions as old as the Renaissance...
...Republican Congress was about to thump on to his desk the long-awaited tax and labor bills (see The Congress). The President's decision whether to sign or veto would have a profound effect on the nation's economic and social future-and on Harry Truman's own political fortunes...