Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...operated and observed them afterwards and they seemed as comfortable as any of our other animals. No incisions are made on top of the tail. If flexor muscles were cut eight or ten inches from the base of the tail it would look really phooey. Incisions are made under profound anesthesia and with a knife so small that the slit in the skin can scarcely be seen. I don't know where you got your description but if New York vets are as bad as that I pity the horses. If you tried to find out something about...
Kipling's scriptural utterance (that "East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet") is made to appear more pontifical than profound by Authoress Wain's House of Exile, an autobiographical record of how a U. S. woman became an adopted member of an ancient, aristocratic Chinese family. Readers of Authoress Waln's book will feel that Kipling's quotation should be amended: for "East" read "Boxers"; for "West," "Little Englanders...
...against his villains--what one is tempted to describe as the sheer pantheistic bewilderment of Coleridge, the "dolce far niente" leisure of Rousseau on the Lac de Bienne, the vicious practice of "mixing oneself with the landscape," the idyllic imagination, Romantic nostalgia, Romantic irony, or the confusion of "profound philosophy with what is at best only a holiday or week-end view of existence...
Engels has given a most profound definition of the state as a "particular instrument of suppression." He was concerned, it is true, primarily with the warfare of classes whose division was on economic bases, but his judgment is obviously capable of racial interpretation also, and his definition clearly implies that the existence of the state is incompatible with the conciliation of that class warfare; an inference which he did not neglect to elaborate. Mr. Hitler's state is simply the instrument of suppression serving the ends of a reactionary and racially religious class. The Turkish government, which has summarily placed...
Replied Convert Mann: "May God bless your profound graciousness and sweet soul...