Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conference with U. S. railroad men. He replied that he would not do so until the Interstate Commerce Commission announced its decision on the railroad application for a 15% freight rate rise, which he understood would be in a few days. Washington immediately took this remark as an obvious White House nudge in the commissioners' dignified ribs to hurry up and grant the rate rise before the roads folded up completely. In their own good time, last week the eleven commissioners, Mr. Mahaffie dissenting, let the commission's pleasure be known. Instead of granting the 15% the railroads...
...Spring Thaw" was written for Roland, and his peculiar talents are catered to throughout. All that was necessary was to put the most obvious analysis of every situation into the tersest from and the simplest language, and to count on Mr. Young to do the rest. For example, when it is offered as an excuse to invite the doctor to dinner that he is still there, Roland drily explains that he won't be if he leaves. Some of the humor is indeed more complex than this sample. Some of it is even vaguely satirical. But none...
...lasting; what does make the difference is that the personality of such a man leaves a permanent effect. One of the major responsibilities of the University is toward its students; while research neglects teaching in favor of the advancement of knowledge, teaching, on the contrary, cannot ignore its obvious function. To the student, legendary teaching is the best type, and Bernard De Voto its eminent representative. What greater impulse can there be to justify the demand for his return...
...Visible to the naked eye were 11,106 new public buildings (including 115 new armories), 43,870 miles of new highways, 19,272 new bridges, more than 11,500 miles of new roadside drainage ditches and 54,244 drawings, easel paintings, murals and sculptured works. Not so obvious were 128,057,654 school lunches served, 18,272,529 books catalogued and 24,099,607 rodents destroyed...
...compliment. "What is usually and generally called religion," he declares, "is to such an amazing degree a substitute that I ask myself seriously whether this kind of 'religion,' which I prefer to call a creed, has not an important function in human society. The substitution has the obvious purpose of replacing immediate experience by a choice of suitable symbols invested in a solidly organized dogma and ritual. The Catholic Church maintains them by her indisputable authority, the Protestant Church (if this term is still applicable) by insistence upon faith and the evangelical message. As long as those...