Word: profoundly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...diet of man has been the subject for many dissertations, more or less profound, from that early day when the delectable Eve bit into the delectable apple, and found it good. It is a rule established in civilized countries that horses eat oats, men eat bread, and the barnyard fowl eat anything they can get. However, this rule does not hold in the less highly cultured parts of Africa, where, it is rumored, polite society is fond of serpent and other things, nicely browned...
...perhaps, under the circumstances. As a handy compendium of high school valedictories. "Another Fledgling Leaves the Nest" is without equal. The closing lines could not but touch the heart of the most cynical, nor is the wealth of advice contained in them less astounding when one considers that such profound knowledge of the world comes from an under-classman...
...blame the doctor for the condition of the patient. Unfortunately the Faculty cannot pursue the student to his study and guide his mental habits at all times. To jump at the conclusion that it is the instructor fault if history is not learned is more facile than profound...
...lectures on Chaucer, delivered at Johns Hopkins University in 1914, have recently been published under the title of "Chaucer and His Poetry." It is, I think, hardly too much to say that this is one of the most interesting books on Chaucer that has ever appeared. Based upon profound and exact knowledge, it is as far as possible removed from pedantic scholarship. It is instinct throughout, with the liveliest enjoyment of Chaucer's art and its purpose is to impart to the reader something of the author's conception of Chaucer as 'the most modern of English poets...
...wisdom of that advice is as profound as is our interest in the subject. (Was there ever a Freshman, for instance, not guilty of writing on "My Purpose in Life," while in English A, where his sole purpose was to avoid...