Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brother and sister said good-bye to each other shortly thereafter, it may be supposed that Sister Alice, unique daughter of a unique President and notable widow of a notable Speaker of the House, poured into Brother Theodore's 'ear the sort of profound advice which would naturally come from one for whom national and international politics have been a life-long diversion, accomplishment and career...
...than a pleasant theory. . . . To abolish war effectively we must contrive to lessen the intense economic tension. . . . Any reduction in armaments is desirable on the ground of national economy but if we believe that such a reduction would put an end to war-unless the movement is accompanied by profound economic adjustments-we are simply deceiving ourselves...
...application of it simply showed that the Creator . . . had for some unsearchable reason not quite seen His way to fall in with our theory." Today, education is mainly vocational. It is not education but training or instruction. Education, Dr. Nock stipulates, is "a general preparation . . . inculcating habits of orderly, profound and disinterested thought . . . giving an immense amount of experienced acquaintance with the way the human mind has worked in all departments of its activity." This, the Great Tradition, exists no more in the U. S. If it did? "The educable person is still here...
...Congressman, and Fred Bucholz, Washington's jolly restaurateur (Occidental Hotel). In Washington's formal society, he has little part. Impartial observers rate him thus: a pretty good" Congressman, personally popular with his colleagues, active in House affairs, attentive to his district's wants. Neither profound nor brilliant he performed national service by his hard-hitting advocacy of Reapportionment. Though he is now serving his sixth term. 1 old title of "baby" handicaps him in advancing toward real leadership...
...winds and reaped a loud round of public applause when he named a woman to the delegation. She was Miss Mary Emma ("May") Woolley, 68-year-old president of Mount Holyoke College. The President chose her because "the whole question of disarmament is and has been of profound interest to the women of the United States." Aside from her academic attainments, Miss Woolley seemed to qualify for her high post by membership...