Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...speaker went on to show that the whole trend of contract letting in New York City has been honeycombed with graft and bribery. Tammany is opposed to municipal ownership as a party issue, knowing that it will never be popular, since the graft in it is so obvious...
Various suggestions have been made as to how we can best eat our cake, and have it too, that is to say spend more and ask for less. The most obvious of these is "for the debts to be paid off more gradually and "for the improvements to be made under borrowed money, if necessary." This proposal to lay our burdens on the future, will hardly appeal to any one who believes in a conservative management of our finances. If our present debt were to be spread over ten years, it would at that rate, take twenty years or more...
...quartet of Beethoven's. It is a piece of constructive music--a wonderfully suggestive combination of allegory, fancy, comedy and tragedy, differing essentially in these points from the music of Mozart and Haydn, Beethoven's immediate predecessors. Their music, typical of the taste of the eighteenth century, is more obvious, making a direct appeal and containing no suggestion of hidden meaning. To illustrate his remarks Mr. Surette played nearly the whole quartet on the pianola, laying particular stress on certain difficult and important passages...
...which is the falling in the rate of interest of funds from 7.82 percent, in 1871-72 to 4.77 percent, in 1903-04 and the consequently greater dependence of the University on students' fees, in spite of the enormous growth of the invested funds, President Eliot names the two obvious resources; raising tuition fees and procuring a larger endowment. The former resource he believes should be held in reserve and he cites in support of this opinion a resolution just passed by the Board of Overseers to the effect that "it is not expedient at the present time to raise...
...attendance, the experiment of having afternoon games was attempted. Two more cogent reasons prompted this, --the Athletic Committee discountenanced evening games and practice, and the basketball management had to pay for the services of Gymnasium employees on Saturday evenings, the Athletic Committee compelling us to play Saturday games for obvious reasons...