Word: profoundly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Opening and closing his address with quotations from the Sermon on the Mount, Mr. White struck a strongly religious note as he reiterated the beatitude "the meek shall inherit the earth" with profound faith for the future of the West he has grown...
...Leon Henderson became consulting economist of WPA, catching Harry Hopkins' attention with a treatise entitled "Boom or Bust." He owed his resurrection to his phenomenal vigor, and his facility for digesting great gobs of statistics, transforming them into entrancing, apparently profound diagnoses of national ills. Janizary Tommy Corcoran last year took him in hand, putting his capacities to good use for the Temporary National Economic (antimonopoly) Committee...
...during his lifetime brought him his first wide-spread recognition. The text was compiled by Brahms himself of meditations from the Bible concerning death and the life to come. It is thoroughly Protestant in its attitude, and in spite of the melancholy and grimness of some passages and the profound nature of the work as a whole, the optimistic Protestant conception of a blessed eternity for the righteous is the essence of its spirit. The terror of the Day of Judgment is followed by the defeat of Death, and even such despair as that of the second movement, "Behold...
...Portland, Ore. pessimism was profound. Wealthy families were reported hoarding food supplies in mountain cabins. Meddling in Europe's affairs was deplored in a newspaper poll, but Portland's leading liberal minister, Unitarian Richard M. Steiner declared: "If war comes, let us move swiftly to make it as short as possible." He proposed giving U. S. food and war supplies to the Democracies gratis...
This disposal of U. S. seapower was cause for thought by Admiral William Daniel Leahy and others of the Navy's high command. As Chief of Naval Operations, William Leahy has a profound feeling for the unity of the Fleet, a conviction that its main strength should ever be concentrated and ready for concerted movement to a threatened point...