Word: profoundly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Immense responsibilities abroad and at home fall upon the new Government and we must all hope that they will be successful in bearing them. It only remains for me to express to the British people, for whom I have acted in these perilous years, my profound gratitude for the unflinching and unswerving support which they have given me during my task and for the many expressions of kindness which they have shown toward their servant...
Congressmen wanted a lot of things explained. One thing which needed explaining: why Hartford had dished out $200,000 to Elliott Roosevelt, whom he had never met before. With his sights on Brigadier General Roosevelt, Pegler suggested: "Hartford had a profound respect for the office of President of the U.S. and may have thought it was an honor to be asked to assist the son of a President." With its sights on "all concerned," the Washington Post commented acidly: "The precise nature of Mr. Hartford's interest in making the loan is open to serious question...
...more & more in the horrified world's public eye. That there were those who looked upon war between the democratic, capitalist U.S. and authoritarian, Communist Russia as "inevitable" was no longer news. The news was the extraordinary number of spokesmen in both countries who, admitting the profound differences between them, insisted that war was repressible...
...Europe before he was 20. He became a musical Marco Polo who brought back from Scotland a Scotch Symphony, from the Hebrides Fingal's Cave, from Italy an Italian Symphony. His merits as a composer have been argued for a century. If his capricious music was not always profound, his mastery of technique sometimes concealed the fact. He was an organist who made Europe aware of Johann Sebastian Bach, and his position as a musicologist is still unchallenged. On the side he filled folios with hundreds of delicate water colors and pen sketches, and he was music...
Permit me to express the profound appreciation which I am sure is entertained by thousands of other TIME readers and subscribers for the lucid and concise report of the victory in Europe [TIME, May 14]. It is so utterly articulate that it ought to be made required reading for every school boy and girl studying the present period of world history now and in future years...