Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That part of the fundamental philosophy of the New Deal which has come nearest to unanimous approval has been the resolve 'It must not happen again.' The determination to prevent the recurrence of wild booms and profound depressions has motivated some of the Administration's best work. . . . Now the Administration proposes a tax plan which, tosses overboard this sound philosophy. . . . The proposal is to prevent the accumulation of corporate surpluses by a prohibitive tax of about 33⅓%. The principle is unsound. It is analogous to levying a prohibitive tax upon individual life insurance premiums. Surpluses...
...Kassa may now return to Addis Ababa, the Italians hope and believe, not as the Negus' supporter but as his superior and perhaps even his enemy. The Italians look for profound developments within the unoccupied parts of Ethiopia within the near future. . . . The enormously important Galla tribes are friendly to the Italians and bitterly hate the Shoas and the ruling Amharas. When news of the defeat of Ras Kassa and Ras Mulugheta spreads, as it must, through Ethiopia, it is expected there will be profound repercussions. For this and other reasons the world may expect startling developments within...
...European situation rapidly deteriorating? At a time when it is absolutely vital that we should have at the Foreign Office a Minister whose coolness and discretion-qualities which Mr. Eden's greatest admirers will not claim for him-go hand in hand with detachment, experience and a profound knowledge of the mind and temper of his own and other nations, is Mr. Eden...
...reviewing stand President Karl Ritter von Halt of the German Organizing Committee announced Realmleader Hitler, who had arrived by train from Munich an hour before. Into the profound snowy silence the voice of Der Führer came out of six loudspeakers: "I hereby declare these Fourth Olympic Winter Games of the year 1936, held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, open." In a steel bowl high up above the stadium on one side of the ski-jump, a pale spout of flame from...
...Last Puritan is called a "memoir in the form of a novel." That is enough of a disclaimer to protect it from the accusation that it is not a novel at all but a profound and beautiful question-mark. It transcends, certainly, any pat classification into which you might try to slip it. The plot, except as a mere framework or skeleton on which the study of character hangs, is completely inconsequential. It could have developed a dozen different ways in a dozen different places without affecting the story's main interest, and this is its weakness as the plot...