Word: profoundity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor A. B. Hart '80 spent the summer at Marblehead Neck. He told a CRIMSON reporter that he had carried on profound research work in the modern novel, with practical illustrations. When asked if he intended to publish any of this research work he replied, "You misunderstand me. I spent my summer sitting on my front porch reading modern novels...
...pipe-in-mouth poses by the author, meticulously initiate the duffer into the serious mysteries of golf. Like any instruction book, this part is all very involved and reiterative, so eager is the teacher to tell all he knows and to be perfectly clear. He advances nothing new or profound, unless it is an emphatic command that the left toe shall "claw" the ground and the eye be fastened not upon the ball as a whole, but upon one particular dimple of the ball. The style advocated is the straight-armed, full-swinging British method and will not appeal greatly...
...allegedly costing the Baron no trifling sum for postage. It was stated that from 10 to 40 letters 'daily are received from admiring females whose sole request is for an autographed photograph. Even this trifling comfort has to be denied them. But they receive a form letter, expressing profound regret...
...such as the Latin races alone are capable of displaying. Flags were at half-mast all through the Peninsular ; places of amusement were closed; many shops had posted a notice on their closed doors: "Have closed as a sign of public mourning." Indignation was heightened and sorrow became more profound when it was learned that the murdered Deputy was a poor man and had left a widow and five young children totally unprovided...
...lean; gazing at mysteries gives them a sober cast. At Cornell University, Ithaca, a group of men gathered. Their faces were grave, lean, sober; they were the members of the American Chemical Society, assembled for their 68th Annual Convention. Two qualities they all had in common. One was a profound concern with the wonders that beset men's comings and goings, traffics and discoveries, on the earth. The other was renown. They deliberated, debated, uttered paragraphs of chemical formulae that were, when understood, criticism, gasconade and prophecy. Sometimes the summer lightning of plain speech lit the cloudy thunders...