Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...visit to President Hoover, snowy-crested James Ramsay MacDonald created a profound impression, won literally millions of friends by the simple yet often thrilling words in which he voiced love of Peace, devotion to God, and perhaps most moving of all to city dwellers, his deep, countryman's joy in Nature, in "the rushing waters and softly sighing trees of your Rapidan...
Minister Washburn considered it his duty and made it his hobby to obtain a profound grasp of all the secret machinations and counter-machinations of the Socialist and Reactionary irregular armies in Austria: the Schutzbund and the Heimwher. During Vienna's "Red Revolution" in 1927, when the capital was cut off by railway and telegraph strikes from the world, and when Italy was itching to use the excuse of "revolution" to intervene, Mr. Washburn saw that such a coup could best be prevented by smuggling out of the facts, the news. He and another U. S. Minister...
...General Summerall cut the explanation short, gave the officers a sound verbal spanking, stalked from the field, leaving Lieutenant-Colonel Edward M. Shinkle, commanding officer, and his staff, standing at rigid attention. What, they must have wondered, would be the result of the artillery-men's subtle insubordination? Profound was their chagrin. Would the episode give rise to Army legend? They had not long to wonder...
...Wright, he began a law practice through which he acquired a reputation that finally placed him on the highest judiciary body of the land. As a great jurist, his knowledge of the law never has subordinated the human equation, never has quenched the kindly gleam of tolerance in the profound seriousness of the sage...
...been altered in the broad sense that it still fixes for the first time the total Germany must pay in reparations, fixes the sums to be paid annually for 57 years, and sets up as a "cash register" the new bank for international settlements. But there have been profound changes in the spirit of the Plan. It was conceived as a business plan, and business today rests heavily on such vague but vital things as "confidence" and "goodwill." Dr. Schacht was talking truth when he said last week: "After the second Hague Conference nothing remained of mutual cooperation, nothing...