Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have, therefore, carefully estimated the limits of our capacity to pay. It is obvious that a settlement practically impossible to fulfill or one which might cause disaster to the debtor is not desirable for either...
...POOR NUT?A boisterous, obvious but entertaining fable about a college lad who won a Phi Beta Kappa key, a track meet and a girl...
This statement, far from being startling, is only an obvious repetition of common knowledge. Shaw, however, has added his name to the cause which is helped by every bit of publicity. The great fear which now besets the evolutionist is that the whole trial will be hushed up as quickly as possible and that Bryan and evolution may be denied the royal exposition of which both are still sadly in need--even at this late date...
...general survey should convince any intelligent person, apart from the judgment of experts, that these buildings could never have been a late copy made in the twentieth-century manner of servile imitation, for they reveal a mixture of styles and experiments which show a genuine creative spirit despite an obvious lack of technical knowledge...
...unveiled, last week, a memorial to Naturalist W. H. Hudson by Sculptor Jacob Epstein. As the sheet that swaddled the work was drawn aside, a murmer of horror went up from the onlookers, many of whom, it was noticed, were old men-dignified seigneurs, others whose peaked countenances and obvious irascibility made it clear that they could come under no definition other than that of curmudgeon. They aimed trembling fingers at a panel of the memorial which was said to represent Rima, bird-nymph, a character in Hudson's Green Mansions. Next morning, letters appeared in the press denouncing...