Word: profound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...elimination of the French Navy [at Oran, Alexandria and Dakar] . . . produced a profound impression in every country. Here was this Britain which . . . strangers had supposed to be quivering on the brink of surrender . . . striking ruthlessly at her dearest friends of yesterday . . . It was made plain that the British War Cabinet feared nothing and would stop at nothing...
Inside the X-1 are intricate recording instruments that total more than 500 Ibs. This week, as Chuck brought the plane down once again, the records were greedily grabbed, as usual, by Muroc's scientists and airplane designers. Already the records have had a profound effect on high-speed modern aircraft. When production aircraft fly faster than sound, as scientists are sure they will one day, their pilots will thank the X-1, the first airplane to pass through the transonic zone and bring back information...
...nurses and patients aboard. Her narrative jumps about from character to character, pausing to listen to the heart of each only as long as a stethoscope might, but returning again & again until the diagnosis is assured. In this way she builds a couple of excellent character studies and one profound...
...young men an opportunity to exercise wit in reopening a question which less emancipated persons had come to regard as closed. Young men like to shock their elders, but these young men really weren't very imaginative in choosing their topic. They could have created a much more profound stir in their community if they had discussed the question, "Resolved, that Harvard University was a mistake." There is much to be said on both sides. --Chicago Tribune, March 28, 1949. Thank you, Colonel McCormick. And now, the affirmative...
...Gritty Caress. When Williams died in 1945, at 58, he left 26 volumes of poetry, drama, criticism, biography and theology, and seven novels. The most profound, difficult and serious of the novels...