Word: profounder
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Experts estimated that the new tax, if paid, would bring in $400 million. From the way things looked last week, it might never bring in $4,000. But it had a far more profound effect, which may have been the real intention of Congress when it wrote the new law: the gambling business of the U.S. almost came to a standstill. A 10% tax on gross business was probably more than the traffic would bear. Even more discouraging was form 11-C. Names and addresses on it would be open to local police, who are supposed to enforce antigambling laws...
...West Coast hot-rod fiends have been making pedestrians leap like kangeroos ever since some nameless hot-rodder rigged a sparkplug in his exhaust pipe and made a profound discovery-that waste gases, thus ignited, produce a spectacular "hoosh" of flame. Last week the Portland, Ore. city council was taking steps to make hot-rod flame-throwing illegal. But the fad was moving faster than the lawmakers ; Longview, Wash, reported with nervous pride that a local rodder was regularly getting a six-foot "hoosh...
...needs is not a philosopher but a prophet.' What I see and what I hope for the Jewish community in America is that it will give birth to a school of prophets and rise toward its own spiritual potential as a holy people. And this will have a profound effect on America and on the whole world. Even a tiny minority, when they are spiritually dedicated, can have a deep influence on the world around them-like the Essenes among the ancient Hebrews, or the Pharisees, or the early Christians, or the Quakers...
...Peters watched teen-age G.I.s die in his arms. He saw other kinds of suffering too. He never forgot the hungry Filipinos who picked food from his regiment's garbage pails. Back in his job as professor of religion at Oklahoma City University, Methodist Peters read with profound attention how the misery that he had glimpsed in Asia was being exploited by Communism...
...testified at the N¨urnberg trial, "was my ardent love for my people." No doubt the statement seemed true to him at that dramatic moment-because it was just the right statement for that moment. Swayed by many principles, guided by none, and moved deeply only by a profound sense of the drama of his own life, Goering lived by whim, hunch, and egotism. He alone of the Nazi leaders could have signed the anti-Semitic N¨urnberg Laws and then, at his wife's plea, intervened to save a number of Jews from death and torture...