Word: profoundly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have never regarded myself as an enemy of Communists. Rather, I have sympathy and profound admiration for your spirit against the Japanese. I beg you to give up your belief in force, change your policy, partake in the government. . .help nationalize our armies and realize constitutional China . . . put an end to chaos. Once you join the government, if you wish General Ho Lung [veteran Communist commander] or anyone else to assume my command, I would welcome and assist him. With your assent I myself would serve under him obediently and loyally. A peaceful, united and democratic China is not only...
Which is right? Neither, said Lord Lindsay, or both. The ambiguity of "democracy" is of long standing, he said; and the difference in meaning attached to the word by Russia and by the western democracies is the heart of what he called the "profound and very important" cleavage between the countries today...
...decision to be taken at Philadelphia will deeply concern the Episcopal Church, but it also concerns the whole of Protestantism and will have profound implications for the ecumenical movement. This movement was originally launched by an action of the Episcopal General Convention of 1910 which arrested the attention of the Christian world. ... It has already borne an interim fruitage in the implementation of a World Council of Churches...
...Last Head-Hunter. In one sense ICCASP was the by-product of a profound foreboding which gripped Jo Davidson during the presidential election year of 1944. As a sculptor he had been almost as much a historian as an artist-he is a portraitist rather than a creator. Will Rogers had called him the "last of the savage head-hunters." He had met and modeled almost all the significant figures of modern times. Foch, Balfour, Lloyd George, Benes, Litvinoff, John D. Rockefeller the elder, Andrew Mellon, Sinclair Lewis, Sidney Hillman, Clemenceau, Mussolini, Gandhi and Aldous Huxley were only...
...current monthly bulletin, the Guaranty Trust Co. of New York deplores these "shocking misconceptions," and management's failure to do anything about them. Said the Guaranty Survey: "The effects of industrial unrest are tragic enough in any case, but they are doubly tragic if they arise from such profound misconceptions as these...