Word: profound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matters of scholarship, especially with Chancer and Shakespeare, Kittredge was dogmatic, but his statements were based on profound learning. When he told us what he believed, it was final...
...vast discomfort of the Chicago Tribune, which had often hailed him as a hero, Representative Everett McKinley Dirksen a Republican from Pekin, Ill., longtime, profound Roosevelt-hating Isolationist, solemnly proclaimed on the floor the House his future support of the President's policy. He added, amid silence and Republican consternation: "To disavow or oppose that policy now could only weaken the President's position, impair prestige and imperil the nation...
...said that we are helping the British Empire defend the ideal of a free society which is built on a profound faith in the significance of the individual, the basis of our University tradition. "It is, therefore, for a two-fold reason a primary duty of a university to cherish this faith and strengthen it by words and deeds...
Although he possessed honorary degrees for his scholarship from Universities the world over, there was no Ph.D. attached to his string of honors. He had a profound contempt for a degree with an oral examination tied...
...President is a profound student of naval strategy, a genius at political maneuver. But he does not delegate authority. He is not at home in the realm of industry and production. Above all, he does not call forth the national will to action-although, because he is the President, it can scarcely act unless he leads...