Word: profound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wittiest, most serious paradox came from iron-grey, satirical New Statesman Editor Kingsley Martin: "We are now in a period of profound peace, which is the last we are likely to have for some time to come. . . . When the war is over, the period which we shall enter will be one of the greatest difficulty and danger...
Behind these strange historical coincidences lay profound historic causes. Once more the whole Junker caste had reached the windmill at Tauroggen. Once more the Junker, whose whole justification for being was their embodiment of the Prussian state, faced an age-old conflict-Prussia v. Russia, patrician v. plebeian, military honor v. treason...
...there was probably not an old-line officer in the German Army who would feel anything but profound relief if the earth were to open up and swallow Hitler and his entire Nazi heirarchy. The demigods of German militarism, Prussian elite officers, hunting, dueling squires of the broad East Prussian estates, were in eclipse. Theirs was the tradition of always stopping a losing war in time to keep fit for the next...
...forces of misunderstanding and suspicion coiled around them and their friends. The common-sensical politeness and kindliness of Mrs. Moore was the greatest mystery in India. It baffled people like Dr. Aziz. They thought she was joining them when she was merely being kind. They thought she meant some profound message when she was merely interested in them...
...brilliant and profound 54-page preface to Joseph and His Brothers (TIME, June 11, 1934), Mann said: "Very deep is the well of the past." Into this well, recorded history goes only a little way, and not truth, but mystery, lies in its fathomless depths. Yet the myths of man are pious abbreviations reaching far deeper than his factual knowledge of events. "Certainly it becomes clearer and clearer that the dream memory of man, formless but shaping itself ever anew after the manner of sagas, reaches back to catastrophes of vast antiquity, the tradition of which, fed by recurrent...