Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reader expects relief from a surrounding of brothels, insane asylums, and disease when Bardamn arrives on Broadway, New York, disappointment is sure to be profound. Broadway is promptly described as "a running sore." The tip-off is complete when, after one or two deprecative observations on what Americans are proud to call "The Main Stem," Bardamn pops into a public toilet. Now there is a subject for you! The author gives it as many pages as Broadway itself...
...primary problems of the new administration is this question of faculty replacement. If Harvard is to maintain her traditional high place among American universities, she must see to it that her faculty continues to be characterized by profound scholarship, intellectual creativeness, and progressive temperament; those qualities, in short, which make possible the election of educators to the American Academy of Sciences...
...Judge Prince came to me and said, 'I want to see that man Pressard. I know too much about the Stavisky affair and others.' Afterwards he said to me with profound emotion, 'I have just freed my conscience.' He had without knowing it signed his own death warrant...
...announced he would cross the continent, deliver some lectures, proceed to Germany. He explained that (like Locanatha Bhikkhu) he is a vegetarian. "It is not that we believe in unnecessarily castigating the body, but we believe the mind works better if the body is fed less. Buddhism demands precise, profound and correct thinking...
HERE TODAY AND GONE TOMORROW - Louis Bromfield - Harper ($2.50). Four long stories about what prolific but un-profound Author Bromfield calls "raffish people...