Word: profoundly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Viscount Grey told of a walk he took with Mr. Roosevelt through the wild country of Hampshire so that the great American could study the songs of the English birds, and of the profound impression that he received of Roosevelt, not only as a great man of action, but as a man of knowledge...
...street car or subway hovers a whiskey breath; no idiotic gaiety can be found in our cafes; every one is serious; no one drinks nor even desires a drink, for all realize now what a fearful poison alcohol is, and without exception the nation rejoices in the profound conviction that wine is neither a food nor an excellent beverage, that the pleasant hours and the comradeship which it gave us were but hallucinations...
...Gown Day! Once again, after two drab, monotonous years of khaki, the Senior class blossoms forth in impressive robes of funeral and scholarly hue. As of yore, the Yard will welcome those venerable togas smacking of mysterious classical antiquity as well as the geometric head gear suggestive of profound and learned erudition in the occult mysteries of oblate spheroids and tangent planes...
Thus all members of the University, both past and present, owe President Eliot a profound debt of gratitude for his clear understanding of their educational needs. And even though he may not be personally known to all of them, they wish him the greatest happiness on his eighty-fifth birthday...
Captain Amann told what the men in France are fighting for, and Professor Hurlbut ended the meeting by expressing his profound admiration for France and contrasting the old Crusades with the present...