Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second Industrial Revolution, quieter but more profound, is sweeping through U.S. industry. Its name: Human Relations in Industry. Its purpose: to give the American worker a sense of usefulness and importance (and thus improve his work). Its goal (stated in one sentence): to make life more fun by making work more meaningful...
Many are dubious of this approach, claiming that students' reactions are not adequate to guide the planning of so important a program, but this objection ignores the fact that G.E. must influence students to succeed. Regardless of how fine a program it seems or how profound the theory behind it is, it is worthless if it fails to produce in students the traits of mind which it is designed to produce...
...Most scientists think that only haphazard studies can be made of physiological functions," said Vallee. This is not true. There are precise equilibria in the system, and only profound changes, such as those made by disease affect them...
Professor Woodworth first conducted the orchestra in Mozart's seldom performed Symphony No. 34. Written in the happy key of C major, the work is never profound but rolls smoothly and joyously through its three movements. Woodworth may not be the world's greatest interpreter of Mozart, but his conducting was precise and good-humored, and the orchestra, which hasn't played the piece in ten years, responded perfectly...
...last week, almost every Shanghai businessman was in trouble with the authorities; about 30,000 merchants had been investigated, fined or imprisoned. Fifteen Communist officials were dismissed; Li Yu, secretary general of the Shanghai party and once governor of Shantung province, was kicked out and ordered to undergo "profound self-reflection...