Word: truisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knowledge and encourage him to take advantage of them, rather than to confront him with a a lifeless array of facts summarizing the subject; and care is taken to wood out as soon as possible those not capable of sustaining this intellectual freedom. It is, of course, a truism that concentration and interest in a field of study increases in proportion as interruptions are eliminated...
...Small space was devoted to the unemployment situation, less drastic in fiscal than in calendar 1930. However, the Secretary declared: "The monthly reports on the volume of employment and on wholesale prices have been greatly expanded and improved. . . . The actual speed of publication has been greatly increased." A Davis truism: "Children are the most precious assets of the Nation." He has five children, all of their names beginning like his with J-James, Jane, Jean, Joan, Jewel...
Author Canfield bends the truism that woman's place is in the home to her own fell purpose. She seems to show that adult life and marriage are indistinguishable, scores many a point but fails to get full marks...