Word: profoundly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...women of the highest social standing. They are taken to the lecture rooms by their matron guides, and when the lecture is over are taken back to the hall without any unpleasant or degrading consequences. The mere listening in the same room with young men to the eloquent and profound discourse of a professor has not been found demoralizing to either...
...dictionary, of which he has been for many years the principal editor. He has also been a not infrequent contributor to the reviews. President Porter stands, by general consent, in the front rank of American metaphysicians; and his sermons, like his other productions, are marked by ripe scholarship and profound thought...
...Profound and comprehensive advice given by an aged woman-hater to his nephew : "Shun the blondes, avoid the brunettes and fly from all the others...
...death of Mr. Darwin the students of Kieff University drew up and sent off for transmission to his son the following telegram : "The students of Kieff University deplore with you the loss of the grand master and buissant soldier of science. The Russian youth bows with respect before the profound genuis who has revealed to man the mysteries of the struggle for existence, has assigned to him his place in nature, has indicated to thought the way of indefinite development, and who, by his own example, has shown how truth ought to be served. The memory of your father...
...felt at his first wine party. He had been invited by a friend to meet a few men, and have a quiet talk over a glass of wine, and he had prepared himself accordingly, and in dress coat and white tie, he went prepared to hear edifying discussions and profound deductions from the data gathered during years of hard study. To his surprise, on entering a room, filled with smoke and men dressed in every variety of costume, from dressing jacket to cricket flannels, the conversation ran on entirely different subjects. "Would Brazen Nose 'bump' the boat ahead...