Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cent. of the cases which are handled by the Bureau concern Harvard students, employees and faculty members but the number is steadily growing as the men learn about the existance and efficiency of the staff. This group is served regardless of financial status unless the case involves persons with obvious ability to pay private counsel and would attract public notice. Every effort is made to avoid competition with the local bar in cases involving the general public...
...obvious from Professor Langdon's letter in the last issue of TIME [Aug. 12] that he has fallen into the error of confusing adrenaline and the adrenal cortex hormone. . . . Indeed, adrenaline has long since been abandoned by many ophthalmologists as a dangerous drug in glaucoma...
...penciled notes on his knickknack-littered desk, he announced to newshawks that he had been making a personal study of the tax returns of 58 people who in 1932 had incomes of $1,000,000 or more per year. These, he declared with a broad grin and an obvious dig at William Randolph Hearst, whose newspapers had taken to calling the tax bill a "soak the thrifty" measure, were 58 of "the thriftiest people in the U. S." By buying tax-exempt Federal, State and Municipal securities they had managed to avoid paying any taxes whatever on 37% of their...
...savage does not try to understand the mechanics of magical transmissions, but it seems obvious to him that objects once in contact retain a mystic affinity. Thus he believes that if his spear has wounded an enemy who escaped, he can make the wound fester by thrusting the spearpoint into a fire. He must take extreme care in disposing of his hair cuttings, his nail parings, his spittle and his excrement lest these things which remain a vital part of him fall into hostile hands. More abstruse forms of wizardry he claims to know nothing about, pointing out reasonably that...
...piano makers, business in recent years has been just one long C# minor adagio lamentoso. Sales, which were level at 320,000 units a year in the decade before 1925, dwindled to 25,000 in 1932, a monetary drop from $204,000,000 to $18,000,000. Obvious reason: the radio. Then began a slow upturn. U. S. piano sales last year were 44,000; this year they may reach 60,000. And last week when 2,000 people gathered in Chicago for three conventions, the National Association of Music Merchants, the National Association of Sheet Music Dealers, the National...