Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chose to sell bonds. People will not buy bonds (or exchange bonds soon to be paid off for new long-term bonds) unless they have confidence in the value of the dollar. The implication of the offering was obvious: radical currency inflation has been put off at least until April 15. Paper Panic. Many a sound money man breathed easier. No confidence have financiers in "controlled" inflation of the currency. In spite of the dollar being off gold and selling at 60-odd in international exchange, the dollar is still a dollar to John Citizen, is still backed by perfectly...
...obvious conclusion to be drawn is that the fraternity system is passing. Taxes have grown more heavy; the revenue from rich alumni has diminished. The Greeks must either become so exclusive as to be a negligible clique, or they must, as already in several large middlewestern universities, turn themselves into mere dormitories open to all. The current depression aided by such awkward schisms as that now opening at Dartmouth, will do much to hurry the transition...
...never inflamed by the ardor of a great cause. Mr. G. K. Chesterton points out that large playing blocks are devised not to startle children, but to put them at their ease; headlines modelled in their likeness do not quicken mental inertia, but play upon it in vast and obvious fashion. By all means let us have sensational journalism; sensational as the Irish journalism of Victoria's time was sensational, for by its aid we may stimulate the populace, if not to thought, at least to passion. But the tedious recital of detail, in type however large, can only distract...
...taught not to think, but to accumulate card catalogues. It would be stupid to maintain that no advance had been made, and to overlook the growth of tutorial and general examination systems. But it would be even more stupid to insist that all is well. It is reasonably obvious that the cornerstone of, for example, a Harvard man's A.B. resembles very closely a collection of fifteen course grades; and it is certainly obvious to observers that those grades are acquired not through the medium of substantial thought, but through a memorization of data...
Aristocratic Samuel Talifer, an admiral At least, if mot a monarch in appearance, returned after ten years' absence to his native village, whose obvious though unstated locale is New England. There he met and fell in love with Althea. Disturbingly before their marriage he also met Karen, a heaven-wrought sheath...