Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take this occasion to thank you sincerely for the very nice story [''Publishing Church"] of the annual meeting at The Mother Church in Boston, carried in TIME, June 22. The data is well-selected and comprehensive. I am sure that this story will create a profound and widespread appreciation in all parts of the world...
...only was the regatta, held on Lake Skaneateles, N. Y., highly successful, but pomp and color known only to the campus were added to the event, making an ordinary regatta look dull and drab by comparison. Since that time collegiate drivers have enjoyed the most profound respect in national racing circles, many of them having battled their way to the top in important events outside the realm of college competition...
...theatre. This devotion to accuracy, however laudable, tends to produce a play which allows its narrative overmuch attention with a consequent vitiation of dramatic vitality. The core of the drama is inevitably the love story of Parnell and Kate O'Shea and this central theme might bear a more profound treatment than Mrs. Shauffier has accorded it. Nonetheless, the story has such merits of its own that mere dramatization suffices to make it an absorbing theatrical experience if not a play of permanent importance...
Metamorphosis. Three times since the Civil War has the Democratic Party been sobered by the awful power of simultaneous possession of the Presidency and Congress. It was Pat Harrison's destiny to be a senior Senator on the third occasion. No politician in memory has undergone so profound and startling a metamorphosis. As if W. C. Fields were to begin playing Othello, Senator Harrison has become a legislative drudge...
...gallant Dr. Robertson, TIME'S profound apologies for attributing to him a remark supposed to have been overheard by Joseph Nearing, one of the first men to reach the entombed physician and his living and dead companions. Last week Overseer Scadding, the other survivor, was in danger of having ten gangrenous toes amputated as a result of the accident...