Word: profound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only man wearing a business suit. In Geneva, begloved and Homburg-hatted city fathers who greeted him at the airport found him in the shade of a cowboy hat. But playing chess with Tito in Yugoslavia he was the picture of conservative correctness-though, sitting there in long, profound silence, he was not the picture of LaGuardia...
...fetid clouds arising from the dying and now dead carcass of the 79th Congress, the passage of a bill last week of the most profound importance to America and the rest of the world has been almost totally obscured from view. A bill which provides for approximately 314 million dollars' worth of international education over the next 20 years...
...occupied Berlin the only things worth thinking about were where to get tomorrow's food and next winter's fuel. But students are much of a piece the world over. Even at the Russian-controlled University of Berlin they had time to think and bull about more profound matters...
These new industries have caused a profound change in old Quebec's 17th Century culture. As the world came in, much of the old, fanatical nationalism and isolationism with its distrust of English Canada has gone out. Now, there is a greater feeling of cooperation between French and English Canada than ever before...
This week's issue of the Methodist Zions Herald applauded: "The FCC has done a profound service to freedom of religion. . . . One of the basic rights that must not be disturbed is the right to achieve for oneself a satisfactory conception of God. To safeguard that right, the church must recognize and defend the right of an individual to disbelieve either in partner completely...