Word: profound
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...complexity of medicine has had profound effects upon the practice of medicine. First, it has encouraged specialization by the physician, and according to the Coggeshall report the choice of over 88 per cent of new physicians is to enter specialized practice. The reason is obvious. It is far easier to encompass a special field of medicine than the totality of medical knowledge, and there is the opportunity to make an effort to keep up with advances in the field...
Hocking, who retired in 1943, was the author of The Meaning of God in Human Experience, published in 1912. The book established Hocking as one of the lead-American philosophers of his time was described as "one of the most original, profound, and enduringly important works of this century in the borderland between philosophy and theology...
SELECTED POEMS, by Eugenic Montale. The most profound poet of modern Italy, Montale is at last given English translations (by Robert Lowell, Mario Praz and G. S. Eraser among others) to match his European reputation...
...poetry is virtually unknown. Transatlantic ignorance is now relieved by the first volume of Montale in translation to appear in the U.S. With quiet force the book discloses what the poetry public has been missing: a European writer of enduring importance, indisputably the most profound Italian poet of the 20th century...
...curiosity is genuine-one might even say profound. "This is a guy," says the same Times man "who thinks he can learn something from everybody. This is a personal as well as a professional trait. He wants to know what you're thinking. He especially wants to know what young people are thinking." One Harvard student who has known Reston for many years says he can remember being "grilled" by him when he was nine...