Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact that Columbia has no campus of the quadrangle style is great cause for resentment but the fact that it is located in the greatest cultural and intellectual center in the world is not even considered. The fact that Columbia has produced some of the greatest and most profound men, in keeping with the tradition of the Ivy League, obviously means nothing when we remember that "it is in a city nonetheless." The fact that above all scholarship has always been the keynote at Columbia likewise means nothing because "its dormitories look like office buildings...
South-Southeast. Half-Indian, half-Irish Author Menen's little parable is fair sport as far as it goes, but it is a comedown from his witty and pointed satirical novel about the British in India, The Prevalence of Witches (1948). The Backward Bride seems meant to be profound in a Shavian way when it is not trying to be like Norman Douglas' South Wind. It is as far from either model as it is from the double target roughly caricatured in the description of Professor Lissom. The professor is somewhere south-southeast of Philosopher Bertrand Russell...
Shotgun v. Pistol. Walton Walker is not a colorful prima donna, or an affable diplomat, or a profound strategist, or an egoist with a flair for drama. Military historians will probably not quarrel lengthily over his capabilities; psychologists will not find him an enigma. In World War II he fought as Patton wanted him to; in Korea, he will fight as MacArthur wants him to-however much retreats and holding actions may go against his grain. If ordered to hold, he will stand and fight to the last man, including Walton Walker. He is, in every sense of the phrase...
...This profound change of white attitude toward the Maoris and their own reinvigoration are due in a large measure to one man-a Maori. Apirana Turupa Ngata was born in a native village, went to a native school, later took degrees at the University of New Zealand. One of the first Maori lawyers, at the turn of the century he was demanding improved housing, sanitation and medicine for the Maoris.' He carried his fight into the New Zealand House of Representatives, to which he was elected...
Rockefeller said at the time of his gift, "It is my profound conviction that the continuation of enterprise based on individual initiative is essential if the American form of government inherited from our forefathers is to be maintained and the nation's economic strength preserved...