Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obvious solution is for a different student to answer each question. This would allow each man to devote himself entirely to one aspect of the course, and even to do a bit of research in it. He would write as many answers to that question as there were men in the class, and pass each paper on to the man scheduled to do the next...
...that most of the great People's Presidents-Jefferson, Lincoln. Cleveland. Roosevelt I and Wilson-had been frustrated by selfish minorities operating through Court decisions, Senate filibusters and Party splits. If the same thing should now happen to Franklin Roosevelt, he feared for U. S. democracy. Unmentioned but obvious point of Historian Dodd's epistolary essay was that the Senators should stand by the President on his plan of Supreme Court reform...
...margin on the purchase of stocks bought on speculative account. London only wanted 20% or 25% and, in many cases, ran contango accounts with no margin at all.* So London took all these commissions from New York and, by a process that is a little obvious today, shouldered what should have been New York's losses. It may have been that London only got New York's 'bad' accounts, but good or bad they got them to the point where probably nearly 70% of the selling on the New York market came from London, and Europe...
...seems obvious that in a large University which represents a fairly good cross-section of every type of persons and ideals there can exist war-minded men and peace-minded men. The militarists will attract no such large gathering as the pacifists, as was proved by the small gathering of the Boston mass meeting in Fenway Park two days...
...report took up the idea of a cut in gold prices, all but obscuring in the verbiage so dear to bankers this simple statement: "It can hardly doubted that, at present, lowering the of price of gold would help cope with the serious problems resulting from overabundant production." Obvious though this solution for gold overproduction may seem, the chief objection, aside from those offered by interested people like General Smuts, is that tinkering with the price of gold is tinkering with currency. The European bankers, well aware that New Deal has been known to tinker with its currency, departed from...