Word: profoundest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stupid," answered Mose, hurling one of life's profoundest paradoxes at Li'l Abner. "It's because they're so good...
...histories should comprise a "must." In advance of the opening gong the opposing contentions, in addition, form a skeletal controversy for all to sec. On the one hand the Hygiene Department holds that its 113 beds in constant readiness for epidemic or abnormal accident occurrence constitute protection of the profoundest kind. The Department's detractors talk of more comprehensive schemes within a similar price range. It is up to the proposed University-wide Committee on Student Physical Welfare to fill in the relevant arguments on both sides of the case...
Reinhold Niebuhr has called him "the profoundest interpreter of the psychology of the religious life . . . since St. Augustine." The Roman Catholic weekly, Commonweal, has rated him "perhaps the greatest Protestant-Christian of the 19th Century, a man equal in spiritual stature to . . . Cardinal Newman." But to many a college-educated American the strangely beautiful name of Sören Kierkegaard might as well be that of a new movie star or a kind of smorgasbord. Chief reasons: 1) only in the last decade have most of his works been translated from Danish into English†; 2) his ironical, passionate, introverted...
...sealed brief case Joe Davies brought back a sealed letter from Joseph Stalin to Franklin Roosevelt. The contents, known only to the principals, were certainly historic, perhaps were history-making in the profoundest international sense...
Lieut. General Dwight D. Eisenhower last week relaxed the airtight censorship on political news which had prevailed in North Africa since the Allied landings last November. The smell of intrigue was worse than even the profoundest pessimists had imagined. Wrote unemotional Drew Middleton, correspondent of the even more unemotional New York Times, just back in Algiers from a trip to the Morocco bailiwick of General Auguste Nogues...