Word: profound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bones. Four days after his wedding in 1917, Yeats's wife surprised him by trying her hand at automatic writing. What she put down seemed of such profound import that Yeats pressed her to continue the experiment. For over two years thereafter he was busy filling notebooks with what certain self-styled "instructors," writing or speaking through his wife's mediumship, had to tell him. When he finally pieced his notes together into A Vision,* Yeats felt satisfied that he had got hold of something that, grasped fully, would "explain the world...
Last week the U. S. felt suddenly defenseless. The hurricane that had struck Europe, the gathering clouds in the Three Easts, had come, with nightmare speed, close, real and threatening. The reaction was profound -broad and deep. As in few times of peace the Nation spoke as a whole and the voice came clear to Congress: Arm. Arm the U. S. for what may come...
Strategy. Day by day at German Army Headquarters somewhere in the Rhineland last week, Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring and their commanding generals-von Brauchitsch, Keitel, Milch, Guderian-contemplated their operations map of Western Europe with profound satisfaction. Everything was working according to plan. Attack has always appealed to the German mind. And now they had such an attack! Their first push had already driven straight across Holland to Rotterdam. Before the Allied Armies rushing northward from the French border had time to reach prepared Belgian positions along the Albert Canal from Antwerp to Liége, a swift...
...centrifugal forces which make it difficult if not impossible to unify Europe," Nathan Isaacs, Professor of Business Law, yesterday gave the first of two lectures in History 1 on post-war problems in Europe. Professor Isaacs was introduced by Roger B. Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History, as "a profound student and authority on international affairs...
...tough little Frenchmen were landed south as well as north of Narvik. Dragging their mountain artillery through profound snowdrifts, up incredible declivities, they slowly encircled Rombak Heights, moving patiently from crag to crag to blast German machine-gun nests on crags opposite...