Word: profound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...longest faces in Chungking today are worn by those who fear that inflation may yet have a profound effect on the silent peasant millions. For 30 years after Sun Yat-sen's 1911 Revolution the slow trend was toward peasant ownership of the parcels tilled; today a new and powerful land-owning class is in the making...
Buried amidst Supply specimens the last couple of weeks gave us a chance to catch our breath. Evidently one of our profound instructors was impressed by our zest; he stated (and sadly...
...Howard, who reached this profound conclusion last week, should know. For 40 years he has been offering the very same brand of knockabout comedy that is now devoted to the flow of Piel's beer on Manhattan's station WOR. As ignoramus-in-chief of radio's least erudite quiz show, It Pays To Be Ignorant (Mon., 7:30-8 p.m., E.W.T.), he is one of the most faithful toilers in the old vaudeville garden...
...Watch and Ward Society, "watchdog of New England's morals." He qualified as smut expert because he sees four or five burlesque shows a week for 40 weeks a year (enough to make it pretty tiresome), hunts indecency in some 60 to 70 publications weekly. Said he: "After profound consideration, I didn't find anything. . . . lewd [in Esquire']. ... It is in the spirit of good clean slapstick humor and we could all use a little more of it right...
Lassie Come Home (M.S.M.), as written by the late Major Eric Knight, was one of the best children's books in years. M.G.M.'s version will delight not only children, but any adult with a healthy childhood memory. Lassie celebrates nothing more profound than the simple and timeworn relationship of a boy and a dog. It dramatizes the uncomplicated goodness of an animal in a complicated human world...