Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legal remedies and to subvert the principles of law and order which lie at the foundations of society. As [Fansteel's] unfair labor practices afforded no excuse for the seizure and holding of its buildings, [Fansteel] had its normal rights of redress. Those rights, in their most obvious scope, included the right to discharge the wrongdoers...
...central problem of the papal election was to select a pope who was, above all else, a statesman. Pacelli was the obvious choice. His natural flair for diplomacy, coupled with the vast amount of training in practical politics that a cardinal must undergo, made him the best choice for the papacy at this particular hour. Besides holding the titular Archbishopric of Sardis, he was Papal Regent, as well as Secretary of State to the Holy See. In the last capacity especially he had served his church well...
...journalist en route to Rome: "If certain powerful influences known to be deeply concerned both in Italy and neighboring countries are effective in their behind-the-scene maneuvers, the conclave will be greatly prolonged beyond the few days requisite for the slow and orderly movement of even the most obvious decision in the Vatican...
...opposition to the associate membership plan other than that springing from certain of the House Masters; high college officials, reversing an earlier stand, are now backing the plan. Thus it is the Masters alone who still must be convinced that the disadvantages of the plan do not outweigh its obvious advantages...
Quite apart from the fact that in all their pictures the Kids have undergone a miraculous, almost evangelical, reform, there is another and more obvious fallacy in the Commissioner's dialectic. The play which gave the young actors their name was produced in an attempt to expose the causes for a condition that had long existed in all large American cities. Largely as a result of the play and its celluloid counterparts, welfare agencies have benefitted from increased public interest and support in the work of juvenile guidance...