Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Occupied with problems and duties at home, Harvard students are inclined to ignore a field of action in which the University takes quiet but profound pride. The latest reports of the Bowles expedition in Tibet, which bid fair to replace several missing tiles in the exotic and unfamiliar mosiac of that region, show once again that the triumphs of Harvard scholarship are far from being confined to Cambridge. If present hopes are realized, the discoveries made by Mr. Bowles and his party, although taking place in remotest Asia, will throw an essential light on the perplexing problem of the origin...
...fine figure of a woman, she has inherited profound theatrical abilities from her father, venerable and gifted Otis Skinner, and her mother, onetime Shakespearean Actress Maud Durbin. Last week Miss Skinner presented in Manhattan her first full-length (1 hr.; six scenes) production with a U. S. scene...
...thank "Buck" Duke for blowing up his tiny Trinity College into big Duke University. Snapped grateful President Few: "The glory of this university is that it is built in accordance with carefully made plans. These, in all essentials, are apt to be followed to the end. I have a profound appreciation of what Mr. Duke has striven to do for Education and Humanity, and I would do honor to his good deeds in any way, however conspicuous...
Marriage into Toscanini's family seems to have helped Horowitz to a more profound approach to music. But the way was hard. When he first met the great conductor he was so awed that he hunched in a corner all evening and was scolded by his friends for sulking. He married the Maestro's daughter Wanda in 1933. Next year Pianist Horowitz will remain in Europe for a tour that is already solidly booked...
...Venizelos, who had doubled the area of Greece, deposed its Kings and given it a place in world politics far out of proportion to its real importance: "All my life with all my heart I wanted the union of Crete and Greece. I wanted it to be sustained by profound mutual affection. I swear that was my only desire. . . . Greece will never see me again...