Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both these systems have obvious advantages and disadvantages. If you are a small country banker who does not want to be swallowed up by a large bank, you will probably see that a chain bank remains a local bank with the interests of its neighborhood at heart; that branch banking is likely to result in financial monopoly; that incompetence or dishonesty in a few high places can ruin a whole branch banking system. If you are a large city banker wishing to expand, you will very likely see that a branch bank can be of more assistance in time...
Business men hastened to speculate on reasons for the new combination. Most obvious seemed the desire to bring new financial power into United Cigar Co. and Tobacco Products Corp., whose earnings were depressed as a result of price lowering of popular brand cigarets to compete with price-cutting chain stores. From a high this year of 27 3/8, United Cigar stock had dropped last week to 15 5/8. Likewise Tobacco Products Corp. experienced a drop, from the year's high of 22 5/8 to a closing last week...
Comparing Authors Renn and Remarque, most readers will decide that, despite their obvious similarity, Author Renn, thicker-skinned through a blind patriotism, has not the subjective depth of Author Remarque. In comparison, War will seem psychologically shallow, less moving...
...from $25 to $30 a share) stock in Curtiss-Wright Aeronautical Co. He knew that Curtiss and Wright were famed aviation names, were also famed aviation companies. He knew also that Clement Melville Keys' Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Co. had merged with Richard F. Hoyt's Wright Aeronautical Corp. Obvious was the conclusion that his stock represented the merger of the great air companies with the great air names...
...Significance. Novelist Williamson always makes his plots go by putting them on the roller-skates of a social theme. The evolution of Jencic from peasant and Hunky (short for "Hungarian" - colloquial for Slav) to U. S. citizen and worker, is obvious and anything but original. But it is done so cheerfully, so sincerely, with such brave and decent effort at realism, that it far transcends what might be banality. It is a warm, vigorous, if somewhat naïve book by a writer who has known and taken seriously all kinds and conditions of his fellow men. The Book...