Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...students who ranked high in verbal abilities planned to go into advertising and writing, while a student who scored high in perception but low in solving problems wanted to be an actor. Dr. Thurstone concluded that his findings not only made the general intelligence test obsolete but had two profound implications for education: 1) His tests will make it easier to find the occupation for which an individual is fitted; 2) It may be possible to train and improve the particular mental abilities in which an individual is weak...
TIME, March 28: "But before in the U. S., world developments over the last year have produced a profound and insufficiently publicized change in attitude toward war in general. Last week the change of attitude was perhaps better indicated by several reactions to the Hull speech than by the speech itself. Wrote Pundit Walter Lippmann...
...Gulistan Palace. There the King of Kings will be pleased to stand in front of the $50,000,000, 17th-Century Peacock Throne and watch file past him diplomats, ministers, army officers, notables, all clasping their hands on wrists to show they carry no weapons, all bowing heads in profound deference to the August Presence. Unhappy the lot of a mere commoner who should by chance say "Your Majesty" instead of "Your Imperial Majesty," or by a slip of the tongue call Iran "Persia...
...modern art. He was 37-year-old William Hayter, a onetime teacher of engraving in Paris. His distinction: that of being the first Surrealist painter of the Paris school to visit the fighting zone in Spain. Much has been written by Andre Breton and other Surrealists on their profound affinity with the antiFascists. So far as is known, William Hayter beat them all to Madrid...
...calling list may not be a very reliable index of business activity but it is-at the moment at least-a sensitive index of business sentiment. For the eagerness of businessmen to see the President, and more particularly the President's willingness to see them, could reflect only profound concern over the business outlook-on both sides...