Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This merely illustrates one of the cases in which a standard grade-curve must inevitably work hardship to those who are near the danger line. But the conclusion ought to be obvious. If no system can be devised for distributing grades justly and on exactly the same basis - grades cannot be fairly used to decide either discipline or distinction...
...owes the University about one thousand dollars, since his instruction costs roughly five hundred dollars a year, of which his tuition pays half. It does not require a Ponzi to perceive that a university is not a paying proposition as far as cash dividends are concerned. It is also obvious that unless some steady and substantial sources of revenue are constantly being tapped to supply the annual deficit, "business as usual" must, sooner or later become impossible...
...couple of years in jungles, men who wandered about the world, whose friends were scattered across a hemisphere, but who were all joined by their common membership in the British official class. They are not often described with any detail, but the exact atmosphere in which they moved is obvious everywhere in the book. It is an atmosphere unconsciously summed up by Sir Harry's explanation of his dislike for the Boers: "Their policy toward the natives was far more despotic and wilfully stupid than ours had ever been; their lack of interest in native languages, in intelligent natural history...
Pied Piper Malone. Booth Tarkington pulled up his chair and wrote this play expressly for Thomas Meighan. When the last foot of film had flickered it was obvious that he had not done a first class job. Smartly titled and perfectly hygienic, it is unsatisfactory as mature entertainment. The hero is a New England villager whose personality has attracted the idolatry of the entire juvenile population...
...naval flying station at Squantum. That it is a generous offer there is no denying. It is also a wise one, from the point of view of preparedness. It aims to fit educated men as officers, and this can do the service no harm. It was only too obvious during the war that it was as impossible to make gentlemen by Act of Congress as it is to make Congress act as gentlemen. And if the thought of preparedness were limited to this there would be no clouds...