Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Meissner, when he had heard this story over the telephone, rushed to President von Hindenburg. Calmly Der Feldmarschall ordered a police investigation, dictated his "profound regrets for such unchivalrous treatment'' which were duly conveyed to Widow Ebert. Later Nazi Captain Hermann Wilhelm Goring, Minister of Interior for Prussia (i. e. of police), apologized to Germany's George Washington's still trembling widow. Safe outside Germany where he says he will stay "because of Hitlerism," Professor Albert Einstein read last week that his home had been burst into and ransacked by Nazis who said they were "looking...
...Massachusetts State Legislature to say that that bill was defeated. The Attorney General reflects the legislative attitude when he suggests that either the law must be changed to cut down the number of weeks or the schools must conform to the present ruling. It requires certainly no profound thought to see that if these qualifications for applicants are to signify anything save the utter ridiculous the quantitative method must give way immediately to the more intelligent method...
...They simply had to clean up when they went to the big city. They appeared at the dinner in store clothes with faces bright & shining. Vexed, Matt Brush would not let them sing. He and jovial Speculator Bernard E. ("Ben") Smith, upon whom the quartet had also made a profound impression and who had helped finance the stunt, were deeply disappointed over the whole business...
...Japan, and a hated Russia prepare for conflict? The world outlook is certainly dark Yet, gloomy as it is, we cannot evade it by such ostrich-like attitudes as President Hoover's. There is no better prelude to war than a false sense of security. If there is any "profound hope for the future," it will never be realized until we can face the international situation more realistically than this...
...Hoover delivered these words in the course of his address: "When we compare the attitude of nations toward each other twenty years ago with that of today, we can say that there has developed both the spirit and the method of cooperation in the prevention of war which gives profound hope for the future." It has long been a mystery where President Hoover derived his never-failing optimism. But the above dictum presents a riddle surpassing anything heretofore. If there were much evidence that international feeling had undergone any considerable change in the last twenty years, some hope might reasonably...