Word: profound
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sober Dallas News suggested cautiously that Negroes might perhaps be given "their fair and just political and economic rights along with segregation. . . . The Court's ruling will have its profound effect. We might as well accept it as a warning...
...against Europe's dark backward and abysm of wars and revolutions, America was still a New World with its own democratic New Order still evolving. In an historic sense nothing very profound had as yet happened to America as a result of the war. But something had happened to Britain-something which jolted England's No. 2 churchman (with his colleague and superior, Dr. Temple) into viewing the war as not merely a struggle for survival between two political power groups, United Nations and Axis, but also as a symptom of a social disease so virulent, long-standing...
Lord Catto knows that his country faces profound difficulties. Burdened by debt, faced with the loss of revenues from overseas investment and shipping, faced too with the problems of a Europe in reconstruction, postwar Britain must inevitably maintain all manner of exchange and trade controls for the short run. The temptation will be to let these controls become permanent-to try to enter into a whole series of bilateral "deals" of the Schachtian variety with Europe, with South America, and within the Empire...
...question concretely. "The U.S., Russia and Britain have agreed to collaborate in building self-government and freedom in the world. It would seem that we could use our good offices to secure some way out of the impasse for Finland. The way this problem is handled will be a profound indication of the future of collaboration...
...from battle. They march toward the camera. One young fellow on the sidelines is smiling, almost with jubilation. There are no other smiles. One gaunt man, his face drawn with sleeplessness and a sense of death, glances up. His eyes reveal both his lack of essential hostility and his profound, decent resentment of the camera's intrusion. Just as he leaves the picture he makes a face, as a father might make a face at a child. In his eyes, in his grimace, he looks into the eyes of every civilian and whatever face that civilian is capable...