Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even if his radio contract is not for a full year (they are generally signed with 13-week cancellation clauses) teh arithmetic is still pretty obvious. Mr Nichols may not know that an income of 1,500 per year is considered pretty fancy stuff by most of what he calls "the American public" and the fact that they consider him and his associates "a wealthy group" can scarcely be called laboring under a delusion...
...proclamation last week, he had his office running smoothly. With his assistant and fellow-Pnncetonian. Charles Woodruff Vost, a 28-year-old State Department cub, he it was who drafted the list of wartime contraband which President Roosevelt charged him with controlling. Mortars, machine guns and methyldichlorarsine are obvious munitions of war. But what about such equally useful, basic implements of war as steel, copper, cotton? In case of hostilities, would an embargo be placed on them, too? Washington wiseacres thought not.* Ever since Benito Mussolini began his dangerous animal act featuring the terrified Lion of Judah and the terrifying...
...time Richard of England agrees to fight for the Holy Land up through the fall of Acre and the peace with Saladin. Although Mr. DeMille's fame can hardly be said to rest on his lightness of touch, his brilliant handling of great masses of people and an obvious striving for authenticity more than make...
...Webster Hall stood Dartmouth's President Ernest Martin Hopkins to tell his admiring students what has happened to the U. S. in the last two decades: "There has been an obvious retrogression.... In circumstances where loyalty to high idealism was imperative, we as individuals and as a people have compromised with expediency ... and amid the confusion resulting from unrest of the spirit we have sought surcease from concern in new dissipations and in more self-indulgence...
...women. Essentially a Eucharistic Congress is a simple act of public corporate faith, centring in the great mystery of the real presence of Jesus Christ under the appearance of bread and wine. It also represents Catholicism openly on parade. To Catholics the spiritual benefits of Eucharistic Congresses have become obvious in the 32 international ones which have been held since 1881. Years ago the annual council of U. S. Catholic bishops voted to hold Congresses regularly every four years, chose Cleveland for the first. Pope Pius approved by naming the first legate who has represented him at a national...