Word: profound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...touch off 20 minutes of cheers. Pierino took seven neat brisk bows. Then he forgot his dignity and gamboled happily up & down the stage. Backstage a reporter asked him: "What do you feel when conducting Beethoven's Fifth Symphony"?" Pierino's prompt answer was at once profound and naive: "Mi sento bene" (I feel fine...
...occasion was his veto of the reactionary Farm Bill (TIME, March 10) which would have virtually banned union organization of the landless campesinos. The Communists wanted a veto, but they wanted a louder one than the President gave. Gonzÿlez told a protesting Communist delegation: "I am in profound disagreement with the Communists. . . . The Communists cannot separate me from the people...
Hole in the Sky. A comparatively new problem is the effect of the moon's shadow on the ionized layers in the earth's upper atmosphere. These layers have a profound influence on radio transmission: they bounce some radio waves back and allow others to pass through. Since the ionized layers are caused by ultraviolet light from the sun, they presumably change their character when the moon's shadow knocks a hole in the sun's radiation. Long before the eclipse, begins, the scientists will have radar-like radios of various wavelengths trained upon each layer...
...Guthrie Jr. grew up in Choteau, Mont., where his father was the first high-school principal in the county. The dazzling air and blue immensity of the Rockies, the profound distances of" the Great Plain: are memorably present in his novel...
...Charity: "A wise old man with whom I was taking counsel once said these profound words to me, which I recommend to thinkers: 'The Saints give Alms, the Bourgeois alone give to Charity...