Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result of this election will not be tolerated!" announced Nicholas Musch-anoff on quitting the Royal Palace. "The new City Council will be dissolved by His Majesty's Government and we shall take certain obvious and necessary steps...
...obtain a representative resident body. From the point of view of the student, the competition for the cheaper rooms may of itself rule him out of consideration. It may well be that it is impossible to make a profit on the buildings through rentals. Again it should be obvious that the University cannot make the rooms increasingly lower and lower. But the increase of moderate priced rooms, to bring the average coat below the supposed $300 mark is something which at the present time, due to the student's decreased ability to pay, in many cases, is a change that...
...actually defeated the purpose of the recommendation. He says, "The new course has indeed been added to the curriculum, but it is only a half course, and instead of being required for a degree, it is optional and actually limited to two hundred students. Under these conditions it is obvious that the very students who most need the instruction which the new course offers will be the last to avail themselves...
...Already obvious is the fact that 1918 marked the peak of employment in the U. S.; 1929 the peak of production. If all U. S. factories were running today at 1929 production, half of the 12 to 14 million now out of work would still be unemployed, note the Technocrats. One hundred men. they show, working steadily in less than a dozen U. S. brick plants, can produce all the bricks the country needs. To produce all the commodities which the U. S. requires, the individual worker needs to work only 660 hours a year...
Alfred Lunt's acting is always capable, but always systematic. He does not throw himself into the part so much as throw the part lightly over his shoulders, so that the character "Alfred Lunt" is obvious everywhere and sometimes most incongruous with the character as prescribed. This makes for a similarity in his characterizations which are therefore hard to criticize as separate exhibitions. Combined Rudolph Valentine and Douglas Fairbanks is the order of the day, and the part is well filled, barring a certain lack of fun and, overmuch grimness. One would ask for a little more lightness of touch...