Word: profoundity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Recently, the Department of Agriculture, after grave and profound researches for "several years," issued a statement that the U. S. farmer is not getting an adequate return on his investment or for his personal labor. This is based on figures taken in 1920-1922. The farmer, according to the Department, is not receiving any "managerial reward." The impression conveyed by the statement is that the U. S. farmer is much abused, and that something should be done about...
...York World: . . . "John Spargo, theorist, . . . has never seen Russia at all save through the somewhat smoky lens of his own profound convictions...
...Significance. It is in this quality of primitive reality that the book is original and profound. Questions are always being subtly provoked that are easy enough to answer at a dinner table within hearing of a hotel orchestra-not so easy when one can catch far off, as it were, the challenge of the ageless cataracts of life and death thundering forever in the dark places of the world. In one passage, Mr, Powys recounts talking with a Kikuyu who asked him solemnly if he were aware that elephants had once been men: "He looked so serious when he asked...
Wednesday, in the central hall of the Law Courts, an usher shouted "Si- lence !" Out stepped George W. Wickersham, onetime U. S. Attorney General, to elaborate upon the profound effect U. S. thought had undergone from the writings of Sir William Blackstone, 18th Century commentator. As Mr. Wickersham concluded, the Stars and Stripes and the Union Jack were slipped from their moorings about a plaster figure of Sir William, gift of the American...
...sickness, but they occur whenever the parasite localizes in the fluid of the spinal cord or in the brain. Since they are conspicuous when present, the disease got its popular name from them. Sleep is a marked and invariable symptom of encephalitis, ranging from a light slumber to a profound coma...