Word: profoundity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Ward answers these questions and a good many more in the manner of the profound scientist that he is. His lectures are models of clear cut precision which cannot help maintaining the interest of his audience from beginning to end. A thorough set of notes is virtually essential inasmuch as there is no up-to-date text book on the subject and the examinations are based entirely on the lectures...
Good news for Canadian lumbermen and pulpmakers, bad news for British and U. S. coal shippers, was announced by Ontario's gruff, industrious Premier Howard Ferguson last week. Drilling profound holes in the rocky banks of North Ontario's Abitibi River, geologists of the Ontario Department of Mines had struck a coal formation estimated to contain 20 million tons of lignite...
...President Hoover last week sent a message to the Zionist Organization of America, under the auspices of which a huge Manhattan demonstration against Arab outrages in Palestine was held (see p. 26). Declared President Hoover: ". . . My profound sympathy . . . good citizens deplore. . . . Our government is deeply concerned ... the fine spirit shown by the British government. . . . American Jews . . . have demonstrated fine sentiment and ideals. . . . Out of these tragic events will come greater security and greater safeguards for the future under which the steady rehabilitation of Palestine as a true homeland will be even more assured. . . . The fine sympathy of the American people...
There were many other events dear to the huge heart of Paul Bunyan?log-jousting, block-turning, canoe-tilting. For two days the carousal continued with Bunyanesque shouts and vaunts, ended with profound Bunyanesque sleep...
...warm, shallow waters of the Adriatic off smart Lido Beach lapped up with unconcern, last week, a profound secret. Locked in the brain of an elderly gentleman who died of a heart attack while in swimming, the secret had to do with the dark, strange, warlike people, apparently neither Semitic nor Aryan, who, before Rome was founded, lived on the fertile land between the Tiber and the Alps. The modern world calls them Etrurians. They made strong bronze armour, neat wooden-soled shoes; jewelry, pottery and precious plate of a delicacy which has excited the curious admiration of artisans ever...