Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...throughout federal agencies. F.D.R. finally pushed the Harvard chair away from the reluctant, pince-nezed little (5 ft. 5 in.) professor, put him on the Supreme Court, where his authoritarian, powerful mind, attention to small points, endless jabbering jabs at pleading lawyers have made him renowned for brilliance and profound regard for constitutional procedure...
Citation: "Today we esteem you most for a quality that, if it partially explains your successes, dwarfs them all: your profound understanding of people...
Citation: "A quick and restless mind, a profound understanding of charity, a winning sense of humor and a radiance of manner-these attributes make her one of the outstanding women...
...superhighways will have a profound effect on the lives of the most mobile people on earth. One out of every seven Americans earns his living in some phase of highway travel; 80% drive to work; 85% take their vacations and pleasure trips by auto. Yet U.S. highways, sadly neglected during World War II, have fallen far behind the growing numbers of automobiles, trucks and buses, now up to 65 million. The new roads will ease present congestion, be able to accommodate the nearly 90 million vehicles that are expected to speed over U.S. roads by 1972. With fewer curves...
...most appealing things in his book is his shyly proud report that his correspondence (including a postcard from Mecca) is filed in the special-collections division of the University of Southern California's library, a mass of 10,000 items which must comprise the biggest pile of profound piffle since Greenwich Village's Harvardman Joe Gould compiled his 10 million-word Oral History of Our Time...