Word: profound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work in the United States--which is precisely what that are doing. In the course of this curious, but manifest activity, they have the effrontery to say that those who realize that compromise with Nazism is physically impossible "have failed to state their peace aims." I have never had profound respect for semantics as a cult, but I marvel that it's devotees do not come to grips with the use of "war" and "peace" as current examples of the sentimental confusion to which even some professors are fantastically subject...
...making a spectacular tackle in a prep-school game). At Princeton he was famed as Intercollegiate diving champion, football cheerleader and one of the prettiest girls in the pony ballet of the 1914-15 Triangle shows. But from the sidelines he studied football objectively, laid the groundwork of a profound pigskin knowledge. That is not the sole reason he was the most sought-after referee in the business...
...peace talks, however, is no dramatic change of policy. Files of our State Department are jammed with documents and correspondence exchanged between both countries during the past few years. These show frequent indignation on the part of the United States over such incidents as the Panay sinking, whereupon "profound apologies" are received from the honorable Japanee. Her polite "go to hell" attitude was forsaken during the short life of the Soviet-Nazi pact when Japan, fearful of this unexpected move on the part of her traditional enemy, found it wise to turn smilingly to America. Despite all talk of economic...
...committee had begun hearings with little respect either for Leon Henderson or for economic law. The Great Jawbone had hammered into their skulls a profound respect for himself-but the committee as a whole still had little respect for economics. Many of them privately agreed that a little inflation was probably a good thing; most agreed that snow would fly before they got down to cases on ways and means to control skyrocketing prices, which are daily costing the defense program (and the taxpayers) millions of dollars, inevitably pulling down the standard of living, setting in motion a vicious spiral...
Brandeis became a precise and profound student of facts, figures, data, until he had a mastery of industrial technicalities. In 1910, when the railroads appealed to the Interstate Commerce Commission for higher rates, pleaded that they had exhausted all possible economies, Brandeis, opposing the upped rates, said: "I'll show you how to save a million dollars a day." He did, so convincingly that his suggestions became standard railroad practice...