Word: profoundly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter also helped to explain the late President's profound admiration for his quiet, dignified wife. Wrote Mrs. Quezon...
Thus, in the 18th year of the Era of Enlightened Peace, an ideological hara-kiri was committed on the anachronistic body of Shintoism. For Japan and all the Far East the consequences of Emperor Hirohito's proclamation might well be profound...
...Street. Most Japanese were not visibly affected by the Emperor's disavowal. The Nippon Times rationalized: "No innovation, as many foreigners think, but a return to the true traditions of Japan after a period of temporary perversion. It can occasion no astonishment . . . only a quiet and profound satisfaction." Communists sneered: "The statement of non-divinity shows a retreat caused by international pressure and attacks by the people. It is like an octopus eating its own tentacles when hungry...
...books which were not strictly philosophic or religious but which implied profound philosophic and religious issues were William Aylott Orton's The Liberal Tradition (TIME, Dec. 3) and Norman Cousins' Modern Man Is Obsolete. Professor Orton's book sought to trace the decomposition of liberalism through the loss of its spiritual content. Author Cousins' 59-page essay is written with a kind of urgency less eloquent than headlong. When the atom bomb vaporized Hiroshima, he says, it rendered obsolete "every aspect of man's activities, from machines to morals, from physics to philosophy, from politics...
...grateful Harvardman Lamont, President Conant replied with "profound gratitude. . . . The Harvard Corporation will take steps immediately to raise an additional $1,500,000 [for its new library...