Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor's plan, although in itself admirable, is not likely to accomplish much in the way of stopping crime, unless the other obvious defects in the existing machinery for preventing and punishing crime are remedied. It is to be hoped that Mr. Ely's fight to clean out a bad mess will go beyond the reorganization of the police forces...
...collective bargaining: The law itself has provided for free choice of their own representatives by employes. Those two words "free choice" mean just what they say. It is obvious that the Government itself not only has the right but also the duty to see, first, that employes may make a choice and, secondly, that in the making of it they shall be wholly free...
...being capable of producing both slander and libel at one and the same time. For instance if when Rasputin says 'Natasha, we are going to punish Paul, you and I,' she advances with a simpering smile one inference can be drawn, but if she shrinks back in obvious horror you might draw another inference altogether. I doubt if it is libel to say a woman was raped, because the usual definition of libel is something holding a person up to ridicule, hatred or contempt...
...eighteenth amendment indicated that a prohibition legally impossible when disguised was legally possible when it was made explicit. The practical difference between the prohibition of liquor and the prohibition of child labor is also clear. The first is a sumptuary law, with evanescent popular support, the second is an obvious social reform, which commands and should continue to command the allegiance of the American community...
...than at any time within the memory of students now in college. The events of the last year have been so arresting and student interest in politics has grown so rapidly that the bases of this demand are easily understood. But while a current events course is the most obvious way in which a college can satisfy this new undergraduate interest, it would never be adequate in itself to answer a demand which is much more fundamental than a passing fever of interest in the affairs of the nation and the world...