Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...communists throughout the world have one more reason to enforce their contempt of capitalism as an intellectual adversary. The same congested mentalities which interfere with academic freedom are evidently at work here. From Christianity down, no vital movement has been so much as delayed by the exercise of an obvious prohibition such as that to the right of meeting. Those who have exercised it are the buffoons of history, uniformly funny and disreputable. No one thinks of Comstock today as anything but a rather bad joke, and leagues for the extirpation of communism are never patronized by capitalists...
There is a slowdown at the NRA. It became obvious the moment General Johnson started westward. When the boss is away important decisions are more or less held in abeyance, though, to be sure, the General might feel that his end of the recovery program is way ahead of all the others anyway and he can afford to take a rest and wait for the others to catch up. Certainly the approval of about 100 codes is a monumental task to have finished since July and if the controversial phases such as labor and wage rate adjustments were...
...Speaking with studied warmth, he declared that in England lay the last hope of the world for the preservation of Democracy; elsewhere it was in ruins. And it was the sacred mission of the Conservative Party to save Great Britain at all costs from a proletarian dictatorship. Disregarding the obvious point that at the present this shot is aimed at a dummy, since the Labour Party officially adopted the same plank for its platform, one wonders whether or not the Tories might not at some later date feel themselves forced into the doubtlessly uncomfortable position of having to meet...
Although the "Colgate Plan" is almost identical in many respects with the concentration system introduced at Harvard by President-Emeritus Lowell, it has one obvious advantage. Both universities stipulate a certain number of required courses, but Harvard makes no specification as to just when during the college career those shall be taken. Thus the value of survey courses as an aid to intelligent choice of concentration field is largely destroyed...
...various Germanic and non-Germanic lines. Further, an intermixture of racial groups does not necessarily signify a deterioration in national culture. It is not only morally and humanly wrong to exile Jews from their native country on account of racial differences, and contrary to Christian ethics, but it is obvious that many Jewish Germans have made considerable contributions to German culture. However, the exclusion of the Jews from citizenship is an essential principle of the Nationalist party in Germany, and the present attitude toward them will never be modified, as far as I can see, under the regime of Adolf...