Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Accepted "with profound personal regret" the resignation as of April 15 of Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay, off to Oregon to try for the Senate seat of Democrat Wayne Morse. ¶ Appointed Devereux Colt Josephs, chairman of the board of the New York Life Insurance Co., and Dr. David Dodds Henry, president of the University of Illinois, to be chairman and vice chairman of a new committee to study post-high school educational problems, e.g., the shortage of engineering students...
...dismiss it as a coldly cynical maneuver to get the poor white vote; it was obvious that the decent, educated white people of the South did not feel that way. But when James Eastland soberly proclaims his undying opposition to integrated schools, he is obviously speaking from a profound conviction, and his voice is the authentic voice of most of the South's 30 million whites, including the respectable and the educated...
...officer does not help much either. He is overshadowed by Alexander Knox, who performs convincingly as one of the passengers, a civil servant caught between intellectual disbelief and emotional fear of superstition. In the end, the picture leaves the impression that it is laboring hard to appear profound rather than merely entertaining...
...Governor "Happy" Chandler (TIME. Feb. 20) and on the possibility that Dwight Eisenhower may lead the Republican ticket this year. Whether Ike runs or not, he got Morton off to a running start with a blue-ribbon resignation-acceptance letter. Wrote Ike: "You have not only earned the profound respect of your colleagues throughout the Executive Branch, you have confirmed the high regard of those members of Congress with whom you served...
Billy got a pat on the back from a U.S. Catholic publication last week. Said the Jesuit weekly America: "We recognize that there are many profound differences between the faith of Billy Graham and the faith professed by members of the Roman Catholic Church. Nevertheless . . . we rather like Mr. Graham . . . On many fundamental points of Christian doctrine, he is in error. Catholics may not attend his revival services. However, when he is put in the balance with some of his critics, he looks a lot more like a Christian than they...