Word: profound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...churchmen's view, the collegiate religious revival, no war-born affair, is rooted in profound undergraduate disillusionment in the ideals of the '20s. Said...
...into a factual vacuum than Doktor Alfred Rosenberg. Born 47 years ago in Rakvere, Estonia, he was the son of an Estonian mother and a German father who sold leather to shoemakers. Young Alfred went to high schools in Tallinn and Riga, developed a high admiration for -and a profound social inferiority complex about-noble Baltic families descended from medieval Teutonic Knights. Even at this early period it entered Alfred's head that if one cannot be born into an aristocracy, one may at least try to create an aristocracy...
John L. Lewis dominated the stage. The huge spotlight of public attention played so exclusively on him that little else could be seen. And the stage was crowded with actors, the drama vast and profound...
...writing this column because I want to show off any fancy literary style or any profound historical knowledge. Nor do I have a new angle in the well-worn intervention-non-intervention debate that I want to get out of my system. That, it doesn't seem to me is of real importance. I am writing it because I am mad, as most everyone else is mad, that we should be doing something that clearly doesn't help us achieve our aims, and that we clearly don't want to do. I am mad because we are blind, because...
...defeat it I feel we must make real this thing I have called the popular will, made up as it is of very simple yet profound desires. I am writing this column because that will which seems so obviously right doesn't have any voice at all in the present. We are apathetically accepting our role in the world without faith, without hope. The feeling that ideals are being attached as decoration to our policy is one that destroys any strength we might have...