Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First of all, the need of a source of drinking water in the Yard, not only at Commencement, but at all times, is so obvious as to need no discussion. Dr. Barney '00 and Professor Morison '08, are to be congratulated that largely through their efforts, the College has not installed a modern drinking fountain, which would be the simplest and most economical thing to do, but is placing as far as possible, a faithful replica of the old pump...
...public recognition of young Mr. Clement's real importance in OARP. The resulting split left the oldster undisputed master of the movement. Meantime anecdotes began circulating in Washington to the effect that his enormous publicity, his vast audiences, his worshipful followers, his new-found wealth and the obvious terror in which timid Congressmen held him had gone to Dr. Townsend's head. "World by Tail" From Old Age Revolving Pensions, Dr. Townsend testified, he had received salary and expenses totaling $16,557. His dividends from the National Townsend Weekly amounted to some $38,500. Of this total...
...political chaplain but as President Roosevelt's personal Richelieu. "It is to be an evangelical cam-paign," predicted Van Slyke. "Mr. Roosevelt will preach sugary sermons on brotherly love and the new social order, without making the direct appeal to class distinction and class hatreds as obvious and bitter as in his spring speeches. The new line is to be highly idealistic, so lofty that mere matters of budgets and taxes, debts and New Deal failures will be made to appear crude and vulgar. . . . The chief custodian of this plan of action ... is Dr. Stanley High...
...that the differences between the various sections caused most of the defects which are numerous in this obligatory course. Such outstanding faults as wide discrepancy in marking, difference in amount of literary material included with composition drill, and great variance in the length and frequency of required themes, were obvious. In every case the solution to the difficulty depends on the improvement of section organization and section...
...think," remarked mild Mr. May, "most unfortunate that the Secretary should have been permitted by his advisers to make ... an obvious and serious misstatement of fact upon such an important question...