Word: profound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enormous. To British home morale it was a bracer so stiff that even the terrific bombardment of Coventry (see p. 20) could not dull it. It served notice on Germany that the Italian Navy was a dangerously impotent ally. It gave the Greeks, and other interested small nations, profound new respect for the Royal Navy. It convinced many a formerly hopeless U. S. citizen that the British Empire could sufficiently take care of itself to deserve all the help it could get, and by seriously reducing Axis sea power made the seas that much freer for all the democracies...
...apotheosis as a man of Mr. Carpenter's discretion would ever go. The music becomes broad and majestic and affirmative, only to drop off at the end in a charmingly deprecatory manner." Said the Journal of Commerce's Claudia Cassidy: "Attractive with no apparent intent to be profound, call it a graceful compliment to the jubilee season...
DEATH OF A PEER-Ngaio Marsh-Little, Brown ($2). The titled English Lampreys are harebrained like the Sycamores in You Can't Take It With You. Broke, haunted by bumbailiffs, M'Lord and Lady and their six assorted offspring are full of charades, false whiskers and profound contempt for rich Uncle Gabriel.Touched for another loan, Uncle G. comes to call, bringing his wife, regarded by the Lampreys as mad if not actually a witch. Uncle G. expires with a silver-plated meat skewer in his eye; Detective-Inspector Alleyn puts them all through the hoops. Delightful story...
...obtain a one day leave. This is hardly sufficient for most men to reach their homes and return, and it would also involve a great expense. Furthermore, future registration will certainly be curtailed by these rules. In this time when every decision taken will have so profound an effect on our future, an untold number of men are deprived of one of their most sacred liberties and duties because they are "learning to preserve their democracy...
...book relates the disintegration of humanistic Christianity to the world's social woes. "When we consider the frightful panorama of the nations," sighs Maritain, "we feel . . . that spirit is humiliated today in an extraordinarily profound manner." Medieval philosophy sought to alleviate inhumanity and injustice by establishing a basic principle of "a love which fixes the centre of [man's] life infinitely above the world and temporal history." But in the last 400 years philosophers have dropped their eyes from God, fixed them on man. Three influences are largely to blame...