Word: profound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chamber. Doors and windows were closed to protect him from pneumonia. The crowded galleries set up a cheer. Muñoz Marin could not take the chair, sat wearing an overcoat and muffler, stifling his coughing in a handkerchief. The hall grew silent. With great difficulty, an expression of profound sadness on his features, he began: "Nothing, nothing, nothing can paralyze the Populares' task. I will be here while I have an ounce of energy. . . ." He said that if he could not attend, his mother could take his place. If anything happened to her, he said, the humblest countryman...
...international good will" in Berlin, Vienna, Geneva, Paris. Between wars they built schools in Mexico, helped Okies and jobless coal miners, ran hostels for refugees. Now they are busy once more in war-torn Europe. Last week Marshal Pétain received Quaker Howard Kershner at Vichy, expressed "profound gratitude" for the work Quakers have done in occupied France...
...discussion. And always, after a little urging, the golden-voiced tutor would read his favorite passages from the Bible, from Kipling, from the classics. The "Copeland Reader," an anthology of these favorites, is the most typical of Copey's books; for he never intended to be a profound scholar, a footnote machine. Copey only wanted to become a good teacher. He became a great one. But Harvard, measuring achievement by output of fine type rather than output of the fine men, waited three decades before awarding to its best-loved figure a full professorship...
...would be appointed in the old Justice's place? Best guess of Washington quidnuncs last week: South Carolina's fox-shrewd Senator James Francis Byrnes, a politician's politician as other men are poet's poets or engineer's engineers-mellow, human, but not profound. Among still good bets was Attorney General Robert Houghwout (pronounced How'-att) Jackson. Two days before Mr. Justice McReynolds resigned, Mr. Jackson published a timely book, The Struggle for Judicial Supremacy (Knopf...
...compared in terms of value. There is literally no common denominator. But it can, I think, be safely said that classical music is a manifestation of a higher, i.e. more advanced part of our cultural and intellectual development. It is usually subtler, more esoteric, frequently more ethereal and (or) profound. Jazz is less restrained, more primitive, and often closer, in my opinion, to what makes us tick...