Word: profound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other hand, Dr. George Gallup's pollsters by last week had piled up evidence in State after State of a steady decline in the Democratic fortunes, a decline so profound as to give every prospect of a clear Republican victory in November. The shift toward the G. O. P. was now so marked that nothing short of a Rooseveltian miracle, it appeared to poll-parrots, could save the election for the Democrats...
Last week General Garibaldi, now 60, was back in Italy again to see his aging mother. In smooth Italian fashion he made public a letter to Benito Mussolini. Since he had "had the opportunity of seeing the profound transformation of the political and economic life of the nation under Your Excellency's leadership, "wrote he, "I wish to assure you from this moment of my disciplined obedience and sure faith...
...government, economics, and history and literature, you inadvertently misdescribe the plan. An equal opportunity for breadth exists under the new scheme as the old; the only difference lies in the equipment and orientation that the new plan gives the new student which, one hopes, will make for a more profound attack upon the complex problems with which he then will seek to deal...
...Merriday is neither so close-knit nor so serious in import as was that of Martin Arrowsmith. But the reader must likewise note that this is not the sour and rickety work of an old self-imitator but a buoyant tale with neither claims nor pretensions to being a profound work...
...unprecedentedly long - 65 minutes. Known results of the meeting: Herr Ribbentrop was : 1) not required to kneel and kiss the Papal ring; 2) did not give the Nazi salute to the Pope as he once did to Britain's George VI; 3) greeted His Holiness with "three profound bows." Most extraordinary surmise as to the text of Pope and Minister's secret conversation came from Herbert L. Matthews of the New York Times. He thought the German had proposed an anti-Bolshevik crusade...