Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strictest neutrality is the policy to which the United States is committed in the Ethiopian struggle. The Senate intended to insure this by the much-discussed neutrality legislation, and an overwhelming majority of the people obviously approve. Nevertheless, despite--or perhaps because of--their profound desire for peace, a majority equally overwhelming support Great Britain and the League in their effort to apply sanctions against Italy. It is the old American dilemma--the desire to interfere yet to remain uncutangled, to advise but not to execute...
...always with pleasure and profound esteem that the Vagabond slowly turns the leaves of the world's most wonderful book and--even as sipping old wine--drinks and muses of the wisdom of years long ago. Especially is this true when the narrative is woven with colorful parables and wise sayings--and especially when the story is told by the inimitable Professor Lake...
...Labor Party- demanded an opportunity before the snap election to present and have the House of Commons debate a motion censuring the Government for shortcomings in regard to unemployment relief. To avert this and gag the Opposition last week, Mr. Baldwin declared: "The question of unemployment is of profound importance [but] I am afraid the only thing to do in the circumstances is. in the words of the sporting papers, to change venue. A vote of censure will be moved in the country before the one tribunal by whose decision we must all abide"-i.e. the electorate. And, so saying...
Genius Mussolini, as studied by Scholar Finer in Rome last year: "First, then, Mussolini has a profound knowledge of men. . . . His penetration is extremely subtle: 'refined' as the Continental idiom has it. This does not apply to one special section of the people, like the peasantry among whom he was born, but to all. . . . The Senate, whose seats are filled by the grey-bearded 'personages,' is addressed [by Mussolini] with the gravity of an elder statesman; the Chamber with tempestuous fervor, and 'high inspiration' and humor. The peasants he salutes in the style...
...into conflict with established religion formulating the doctrine of Perfectionism, which held that moral perfection was attainable on earth. This was in direct opposition to prevailing "miserable sinner" Christianity. Awkward, shy, redhaired, Noyes neverthe-less won enthusiastic followers, particularly among women. A period of acute economic distress made a profound influence on him, led him to declare, "Heaven must begin on earth soon, or Hell will...