Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theory of agricultural economies. These academic farmers do bring to Littauer the practical experience most students lack. In fact, after their academic stretch, the agricultural extension students have advanced farther and faster in government that Littauer's other products. Black's colleagues agree that his falls, has had as profound an influence unique program, for all its academic piton the public service as almost all the rest of Littauer...
...broke with Il Duce over the Matteotti murder in 1924. After that he abandoned politics, until in 1935 Mussolini's march into Ethiopia stirred Orlando's nationalism. He reappeared briefly in the political spotlight when he wrote Mussolini a fan letter. Otherwise, as he explained grandly: "The profound oblivion . . . descended on my name [is] the rational necessity of a historical situation imposed by destiny." In 1943, in his eighties, he presented himself to war-battered Sicily as a "heroic symbol" of Italian patriotism...
Summarizing, Bishop Lilje compares the breakdown of the "optimistic world view" of the 19th century with the fall of the medieval world order in Luther's time. He writes: "His plight, like ours, is a profound sense of the uncertainty of human existence. We are not secure in this world, but in constant peril ... All human roads seek to avoid these deep valleys. It was Luther's experience that God purposely leads us through them in order to make us receptive to His Word...
...take this opportunity to pay my profound respect to your daring and courageous action in this battle, and also to congratulate you upon your miraculous escape under such circumstances. "I come to know from TIME that you are going to run for the next election of Senators. I am firmly convinced that a person who practices tolerance to the former enemy, like you, if elected to the high office in your country, would no doubt contribute ... to the promotion of genuine friendship between Japan...
...class, rich, middling or poor, English, Irish or foreign, and he changes color and becomes whatever his subject is, from an English cook to an African delinquent, from a ten-year-old Irish hoyden to an English army wife or an evangelical lawyer. The assimilation is quick, delectable, sometimes profound. Many novelists have a wide range of characters, but it is often merely a range of conscientious guesses; Mr.Cary goes further and becomes the person...