Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obvious result of this insufficient wage is to recruit the aid of all members of the family of working age in the support of the family. Fifty percent of the workers in the mills are women...
...towns. What a contrast to the stupid methods of Passaic and Clifton where reporters are assaulted, where strikers are sent to jail for thirty days for swearing, although the police wear no haloes, and where the chief of police should be arrested for assult and battery. There is an obvious lesson there for all peace officers who must deal with strikers...
...University of Ipswitch Tweedle contains the following: "Many a son of Ipswitch arose with a start this morning to discover the most unusual happening. It seems that the Piffle, Ipswitch's comic magazine, had grown tired of literary wit and had taken to more obvious measures. Attired in green tulle and early restoration flannels the editors were formed in double file and with file and drum marched dinfully to the tune of "Deep River". Various campus police accompanied them on horseback with loaded black jacks. The whole affair was, to be mild, the most humorous thing which has transpired...
...problem confronting American universities is that of shifting the formation of potential scholars back to the schools. One obvious plan would be to raise the standard of entrance examinations. In this way the secondary schools would have to give many of the freshman courses which properly belong to them. But the danger of causing more cramming of formal facts or added emphasis on the mere technique of passing examinations is too great to render this solution entirely satisfactory...
...even let it better niceness. But he has also illuminated the lives of the dwellers in a strange land, the devotees of a strange religion, and done so with precision and tact. That celibacy does not always prelude sanity; that religion does not necessarily preface morality are obvious facts. Yet a book like "Black Valley...