Word: profound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agree, also, that we must not approach the difficult national problem of greatly increased numbers wanting higher education in the next generation in any narrow, provincial or selfish spirit. We have a profound concern as citizens and as members of a university community with the kind of education the coming generation will have, and we have an obligation to the nation and to Harvard to do our full duty. But what is our duty? Here Harvard men will disagree, as usual...
...News spent much of its space explaining why it, too, served liquor to minors. Comments on national and international affairs appear infrequently, and are of the crudest armchair variety. One of them, written after the Eisenhower break in the Stock Market, predicted an oncoming United States depression with the profound conclusion that "It need not be pointed out that if this nation suffered another depression of serious proportions, it would lose considerable influence in its effort to woo the world to capitalism instead of communism...
...philosophy is based upon a profound respect for the dignity and sanctity of the individual. We believe that the state exists in order to insure a more rich and abundant life for its citizens. We reject the totalitarian philosophy that the welfare of citizens should be sacrificed in order to contribute to the prestige of the state...
...Morton G. White, professor of Philosophy and chairman of the department of Philosophy, called Harvard's appointment of Oppenheimer "a testimony not only to his great distinction as a scientist, but also an expression of the scholarly world's appreciation of his breadth of interest, his cultivation, and his profound understanding of the situation in which man finds himself today...
...Profound Naiveté. Australians could only wonder what Evatt thought he was doing. It had been possible for Evatt to claim with some justice that the Petrov case had been unfairly used to defeat his chance of becoming Prime Minister; it was also a fact that the Petrov disclosures had led to no arrests. But to suggest that the word of Moscow should be solicited, let alone be taken seriously, displayed at the least a queer and profound naiveté on the part of a longtime high minister who aspired to govern Australia. It seemed a blunder that could wreck...