Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Swedish Royal Academy of Science awarded its 1936 Nobel Prize for Chemistry to a profound student of molecular structure, Professor Peter Joseph Wilhelm Debye, 52, of Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics. The Prize for Physics was divided between a pioneer cosmic ray researcher, Professor Victor Franz Hess, 53, of Austria's Innsbruck University, and 31-year-old Professor Carl David Anderson of California Institute of Technology, discoverer of a fundamental particle of matter, the positive electron. Prizeman Debye will receive about $40,000, Prizemen Anderson & Hess each half that...
...especially when transporting them by train or motor to clinics, boarding homes, or other destinations, have after questioning confessed in a number of instances that they knew all about this sort of experience. They had observed it in themselves many times. Surely a stimulus of this strength would produce profound changes in the functioning of the ductless glands, a restoration of the normal balance in cases of earlier unbalance...
...dynamic, he is magnetic; he is earnest. He believes in Himself, his Country and his God. He must fight on, not only for the love of his Land and the great City he lives in, but because, too, of a deep and profound concern for his neighbors in Sixty Third Street...
...Profound and passionless, the New York Times last week looked out on the seething U. S. political scene, weighed, balanced, pondered, reviewed through two long editorial columns, ended by offering its readers "A Reasoned Choice." The choice: Roosevelt. The reasons: Nominee Landon offers little but a second-hand New Deal, blighted by his Party's traditional isolationism. Nominee Roosevelt, a keen judge of public opinion, will make his second Administration more conservative than his first. Commanding the confidence of the distressed masses, he will "provide insurance against radicalism of the sort which the United States has most to fear...
...boldness of design is without parallel in history. . . . The British people and Parliament have seen fit to offer to India a Constitution which by its liberal principles stands in impressive contrast to those political tendencies which are evident over wide areas of the world. . . . These changes connote a profound modification of British policy towards India as a member of the Commonwealth. . . . They involve nothing less than discarding old ideas of Imperialism for new ideas of Partnership and Co-operation...