Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...closing of Hemenway comes as the first of the more obvious curtailments of the H.A.A. which are made necessary by the deficit which it faces for the present year. Present estimates set the deficit hope to make up mach of this by playing Princeton in football next fall instead of Leigh. The Princeton game is expected to bring in something over $80,000 as compared with last year's receipts tees will cut Harvard's share...
...declares in effect that it is quite unnecessary to buy Jad Salts in order to reduce-which, of course, is a fact-but that any reduction must be brought about by cutting down on the food intake. While this is the technical thesis of Jad Salts advertising the obvious intent seems to be to make the public believe that Jad Salts is an obesity cure...
...only obvious handle Author Cantwell gives to critics who would call his book propaganda is the title. In the story itself, he never once intrudes, never gives the impression that his class-warriors are aided or struck down from his hidden Olympus. Though the whole narrative is objective, third-person, Author Cantwell shifts the focus to each principal character in turn...
...scientific enthusiasm or stir his particularistic curiosity: "It will be interesting to see whether the revivalist enthusiasm worked up by Communists, Nazis and Fascists will last longer than the similar mass emotion aroused by the first Franciscans. . . . Folk-art is often dull or insignificant; never vulgar, and for an obvious reason. Peasants lack, first, the money, and, second, the technical skill to achieve those excesses which are the essence of vulgarity." Author Huxley speaks for the majority of travelers and intelligentsia when he confesses: "Frankly, try how I may, I cannot very much like primitive people. They make me feel...
...this dislike of war that brought Mr. Wilson to his second term in 1916. The basker from Baffin Land goes on to tell us that "the problems are not virtually our own" and that we will "have to ferret out insidious propaganda." Surely Mr. Wilson saw these obvious facts as early as 1914. But Mr. Stoddard gets more practical, he says "that we should export arms only f.o.b., so that ships flying our flag would not be involved." Similarly Americans should only sail in American boats, lest they get hurt; otherwise it's their own fault, and the government should...