Word: profoundly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spectacular as that operation was and useful as it might be to specialists in birth control, it was simply one incident in a profound research into fundamental biological activity which Dr. Burr and colleagues at Yale are quietly pursuing. They want to analyze "the electrical properties [of living creatures] and determine where and how they appear and to find some reasonable explanation of their presences. . . . It is not improbable that they may be bound up with the dynamic wholeness of a living system. Electrical currents produce electrical fields and it is possible that a living organism possesses not only many...
...under the sponsorship of the General Education Board to consider what needed to be done to restore reason and balance to modern juvenile life. They had learned that to the usual perplexities of adolescents in all times there had been added since the War new worries accompanying profound changes in the structure and tempo of society...
...Dorothy Thompson: "She is a victim of galloping nascence. Most of her newspaper training was received abroad when she was an active if not particularly profound foreign correspondent. Returning to her native land, she is suddenly filled with the same fervor of discovery as 'Stout Cortez' or Columbus. . . . If all the speeches she has made in the past twelve months were laid end to end they would constitute a bridge of platitudes sufficient to reach from the Herald Tribune's editorial rooms to the cold caverns of the moon. Dorothy Thompson is greater than Eliza because...
...reference to your article entitled "Flight v. Glide" under Animals p. 48 of issue dated Aug. 30, I was surprised to find such a profound discussion devoted to what has been so often and so casually observed in the Fleet by Officers and Men standing long watches at sea. ... Having watched them skimming away from the ship's prow on many occasions I had made conclusions one or two years ago which substantiated the deductions of both the University of Michigan's Ichthyologist Carl Leavitt Hubbs, and Connecticut's Trinity College Geologist Edward Leffingwell Troxell...
...half starved himself, then insisted upon walking instead of riding in a bullock cart, would have staggered into the Congress Committee and inspired his disciples with their oft-repeated "pangs of remorse for the suffering we cause the Mahatma by our unworthiness." Smugly the Times of London editorialized its "profound satisfaction," noted that the executive committee described Britain and India as "the exploiter and the exploited." Even this did not lessen Britain's "profound satisfaction," the Times explicitly declared, because it "seems to have been inserted largely to save the faces of Nehru and his immediate followers...