Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true teacher not only ferrets out a significant--and frequently the least obvious--factors in a given passage, interpreting it in accord with the disparity between the present and the past, making clear the while why the passage is significant--in addition to this he so fires his students with enthusiasm that some feel driven to research of their own, while the majority return to the text with a deep and lasting understanding of its true meaning. Because Professor Kittredge accomplished these two results virtually to perfection, he is responsible for our conception of Shakespeare and has himself taught every...
...obvious effect: assuming the volume of production to remain un canged, Italian industry must take on one-fifth more workers...
...tempted to echo a recent CRIMSON editorial by saying, "What the CRIMSON needs more than anything else is to go on a sustained bat," but it is obvious that the need has long since been fulfilled. Now that the CRIMSON has won the goodwill of Benito Mussolini and the Harvard Corporation, it might be well for the National Student League to point out some fallacies, intentional or otherwise, in your editorials of Feb. 15 and 19 on our opposition to Professor Gini...
...Combat demagogues with demogoguery" is a political axiom which the intelligent portion of this country has long neglected. Amused by the obvious imbecility of Long, Coughlin, or Townsend, yet considerably frightened by the tremendous effect of these orators on what they consider "the people of no importance," the intelligentsia have not departed from time-honored tactics. Yet these tactics have failed. No longer can a man be laughed out of existence when he holds the secret to Kingdom Come for the common people...
...obvious note is, of course, an unadorned "God!" The next most obvious one is: "Mr. O'Connor was formerly president of the defunct Harvard Journal." I just want to make it easy...