Word: profound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to Dr. Paul R. Chernoff spokesman for University Health Services, twelve freshman reported to Stillman infirmary over the weekend with symptoms of "profound lethargy." All were unable to take their examinations...
...Mumma, a member of the United Ministry at Harvard, said last night that Brown's quote had been "wrenched out of context." Commenting on Brown's attack on the reasons Harvard ministers endorsed the civil rights movement, Mumma said that many of them were acting out of a profound religious conviction and not simply secular reasoning...
...only of bureaucratic self-righteousness and too-prolonged insulation from the ever-growing anxieties that Mr. Bundy's ex-colleagues in universities everywhere feel toward the foreign policies that he has helped to shape in recent years. His mind is more rapid than accurate, more facile than profound: for if he did acknowledge a special accountability to the scholars where questions of fact and of truth are concerned, the result might be an improvement in the quality of communications emanating from the White House...
Cooling Crises. The Paris meeting highlighted the vast powers of the international moneymen, whose influence in world affairs has soared in recent years. A thumbs down to Britain's request would very probably have forced a devaluation of the pound, brought down the Labor government and had profound effects on the West's entire monetary system. When the moneymen speak, governments listen carefully. They practically forced the Wilson government to take restrictive measures, pressured the U.S. Government into steps to correct its chronic balance-of-payments deficit and helped cool the sterling crises...
...book published by the Viking Press in 1964, Jones explores the development of American culture from the discovery of the new continent to the Jactsonian period. He believes, as he says in his preface, in "the profound and central truth that American culture [arose] from the interplay of two great sets of forces-the Old World and the New." His book depicts the development of American law, religion, literature, and art through the conflict of these two sets of forces...