Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...falsehoods. I confess that a rather unworthy suspicion has crossed my mind that it has perhaps been easier for our traducers to gain a hearing than it has been for our defenders Here & there a physician has raised his voice, not always, I am sorry to say, with very profound wisdom, but lay defenders are notably absent, and I find it rather hard to believe that an occasional satisfied layman, an occasional grateful patient, has not tried to say something in our favor...
...possible to have a profound knowledge of literature and never leave your bedroom. To speak authoritatively about, painting you must travel. To appreciate El Greco alone a critic must have visited galleries in London, Dresden, Madrid, Toledo, New York. This week Pittsburgh, Pa. repeated its annual claim to a place on the art critic's itinerary. The 30th annual International Exhibition of the Carnegie Institute opened. On hand were 496 pictures by 281 artists from 16 countries. Judges were assembled. Prizes were awarded. It was a big affair...
...mind; a situation which is exceedingly serious in the case of one whose eyes are habitually fixed on the furthest nebulae. His present intellectual depression is the result of a surfeit of extreme contrasts, a diet upon which he has subsisted entirely since returning to Widener's profound shades...
...Among the human values thus created science ranks with art and religion. In its selfless pursuit of truth, in its vision of order and beauty, it partakes of the quality of both. More and more it is beginning to make a profound esthetic and religious appeal to thinking people. In deed, it may fairly be said that science is perhaps the clearest revelation of God to our age. Science is at last coming into its own as one of the supreme goods of the human race...
...This] book is emphatically not intended for sappy souls who sigh for inspiration, in the hope of being kicked upstairs. ... It is a work book. In the hands of a lusty toiler, it will show solid profits." No trilling Pippa of pedagogy, no profound Paracelsus either, Professor Pitkin is nothing if not practical, hates waste, is hot after results. In this Pitkinesque textbook, thumb-printed with many a helpful hint, anecdote, rule, bristling with statistics and questionnaires, you may spend some lively hours, may even learn something about learning...