Word: profound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nothing for ourselves except reciprocal fair play. . . . Our 'reply to the world' is a challenge to match us in good works." The Senator paid a parting tribute to Jimmy Byrnes: "I salute him with affection and profound respect; [he] has been an able, efficient, courageous Secretary of State in the finest American tradition...
...qualities of suspense and its Austrian atmosphere, Author Millar's story recalls Ethel Vance's best-selling novel Escape (TIME, Sept. 25, 1939). Not particularly profound, it is swift and very readable. As a novel it has a fault typical of most such efforts to recreate recent history: the writer has tried to include characters symbolic of everything, from France to the U.S. officer corps...
...Hood achieves clarity and avoids slushiness, a rare combination in youthful poetry. (The "R" presumably stands for "Robert.") Two poems by Nickie Raphaelson are short, neat, and talented, and some sort of prize was won by Marylon Buckley for three cinquains, but they have that vague quality of profound meaningless that could only be appreciated by an aesthete in a sleepy mood...
This religious and esthetic achievement of Negro Americans has found profound expression in Marian Anderson. She is not only the world's greatest contralto and one of the very great voices of all time, she is also a dedicated character, devoutly simple, calm, religious. Manifest in the tranquil architecture of her face is her constant submission to the "Spirit, that dost prefer before all temples the upright heart and pure...
Once again, immeasurably greater will be the audience appreciation if the play is seen with the knowledge that it is much less a profound portrait of "The Magnificent Yankee" than, as one elderly lady was heard to exclaim ecstatically, of "Holmes, Sweet Holmes...