Word: truisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Olympic Winter Games last eleven days, include hockey, bob-sled racing, speed and figure skating, four kinds of skiing. It is a truism that the Olympics, instituted to promulgate international goodwill, usually promulgate nothing of the sort. Last week, long before any significant results had been recorded, a series of major and minor brawls in sad contrast to the gay opening ceremonies made it clear that, in competitive ill-will, as well as in size, beauty of scene and dignity, the Winter Olympics of 1936 would outclass all their predecessors...
...President, while our foreign trade came crashing down to rock bottom, said that tariff walls cannot be made too high. It is also typical of the American superstition that a high standard of living depends upon a favorable balance of trade. Although it is almost a truism that American prosperity depends upon Europe's having enough gold stocks to keep her currencies somewhere near stability, the United States continues to believe in a mulish manner that this country must sell the world more and more and buy less and less. To point out that America is no longer a debtor...
...Association must realize that it is run to give the students as many athletic opportunities as possible. It has been said that they could exist without an athletic program, but where would the H.A.A. be without the students? This cannot be taken as a criticism; it is a truism, for the organization was started to take care of boys' needs, and has expanded to meet them as well as possible...
...refreshing to find Mr. Wallace frankly recognizing the great problem which now confronts America along with the rest of the world, and the full implications of which no thinking man can avoid facing. This problem, of course, is--and to state it sounds almost like a truism--whether we are to embrace economic nationalism, or embark on a policy of vigorous internationalism with all that that implies, or merely to continue drifting. Wallace himself is in favor of a policy of internationalism, but he admits that it is extremely likely that it could succeed. We will then, he says...
...work demands the direct examination of original sources and manuscripts in the stacks. The present limitation of time has resulted in overcrowding the stacks and unsatisfactory study in such a hurried condition. That the graduate student should think more and read less is perhaps a sagacious enough truism, but the mere arbitrary contention does not change the present graduate study over night. The extinction of light does not necessarily bring more and brighter light. The undergraduate is certainly not left untouched during the reading period. Many books are needed which the house library does not possess, but are reserved...