Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...originally proposed by the CRIMSON not on the theory that eating in the several Houses was a distasteful process which their residents would wish to escape, but with the feeling that friends in different Houses should be enabled to eat occasional meals together, unhampered by financial restrictions and the obvious embarrassments involved...
Under ordinary circumstances the above plans seem adequate, but for House dinners, greater restriction should be imposed. The difficulties are obvious. It seems, however, that by maintaining the present system of special charges on such occasions, all the major objections would be met, and the present limited but valuable freedom retained intact...
...this moment, when the country is in the midst of economic troubles causing suffering comparable to that of war, when the obvious solution is a radical cut in government cost, the Legion is not only intensively advocating immediate payment of some two billions of dollars which are not due until 1945, but also refuses to help prevent the $450,000,000 yearly waste in payments to "Veterans" who suffered no disabilities in the World War and many of whom saw no service abroad...
Both types promote a sense of values which can be overemphasized. This is the sense of values which gives special importance to immediate material considerations such as position and wealth, instead of to less obvious things such as intellectual and artistic ability, cultivation, and character. Influence and affluence often reflect brains and personality, but the latter qualities too frequently express themselves in other ways for which there is little or no recognition...
...working, more money spent than if some men were able to save, others were dependent upon charity. Last week on the day that Socony-Vacuum took up the plan, 28 leading economists, including Harvard's Wallace Brett Donham and Yale's Irving Fisher, endorsed it with the obvious warning that the movement would defeat its purpose "unless the principle of sharing is kept within the point where every employe receives at least enough income to provide for himself and his dependents the necessities of life...