Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apparent that final passage of the Work Relief Bill would bring much relief, if not to the unemployed, at least to the Administration. The greedy efforts of New Deal administrators to beat one another to the money bags which also held prestige, power and national headlines were getting uncomfortably obvious...
...Obvious answer: Luxembourg. The tiny Grand Duchy has a customs union with Belgium and subjects of Grand Duchess Charlotte mostly think of the Luxembourg franc as interchangeable with Belgium's. They scratched their heads dubiously when the Grand Ducal Govern-ment decided that the Royal Belgian Government's example of 28% devaluation was a bit extreme, proceeded this week to devalue the Luxembourg franc...
...press wires went her answer: "I have nothing but contempt for [Mrs. Roosevelt]. She is as presumptuous as usual in her assumption as to what I intended or did not intend relative to Miss Perkins. Why should I answer her? Nothing she ever says is worth answering. The obvious fact to sensible people is that Mrs. Roosevelt is the obvious type of cheap headline seeker...
...neighbor universities could share their facilities and faculties, both might grow faster. This obvious idea first cropped up at a dinner club organized a few years ago by Duke and North Carolina professors. Soon the professors were holding joint seminars, lecturing to each other's classes. In 1933 President Few and President Frank Porter Graham of North Carolina appointed a joint committee to systematize the cooperation...
...Obvious to the Guild as well as to outsiders was the fact that the strike had prevailed, not against a rich strong paper, but against a poor weak one with one foot already in the courts. Therefore the Guild refrained from crowing, claimed only "a substantial victory for Guild principles," promised to make the Ledger "better than ever...