Word: profoundly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...profitable task. Nonetheless, the last five years have tended to crystallize differences of political thought as clearly on the Supreme Court as elsewhere in the U. S. and in the light of their decisions the three conservatives on the bench at least constitute a cohesive minority united by their profound faith in the rights of Capital. They are in the order of their appointment: James Clark McReynolds (1914), Woodrow Wilson's onetime Attorney-General, a peppery oldster of 75 who mortally fears tobacco smoke; George Sutherland (1922), a onetime (1905-17) Utah Senator, who was one of the four...
...income. Among eleven other decisions handed down, the most important per se was a preliminary victory for the National Labor Relations Board in its dispute with Pennsylvania Greyhound Lines Inc. The Court announced that it would review the case, which may or may not turn out to have a profound effect on the legal standing of company unions...
...Hooton believes in the tremendous importance of an individual's biological heritage, that superior minds and superior bodies usually go together, and that "the quality of any individual mind is probably inherent and immutable." As a profound student of evolution, he knows that in so highly evolved an animal as man evolution does not stand still. The species either progresses or degenerates. Since he discerns no improvement since the end of the Glacial Period and since the signs of deterioration are already apparent to his trained eye, he concludes that the present course of man is downhill...
While he had not become a millionaire meat packer, Mr. Lorimer had wielded profound influence as one of America's most important editorial figures, had long drawn a $100,000 salary...
...towns and cotton country, is now at work on a picture called Judgment Day which will contain no less than 500 figures. An obviously gifted draughtsman, McCrady gets his luminous effects by "under-painting," working in transparent color glazes on a warm, umber ground. Tender, fully imagined, though not profound, his Negro paintings appear as authentically melodious as the Kansas paintings of John Steuart Curry are authentically robust...