Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...model, compares the surprise of the audience to that of a maiden lady on a roller coaster for the first time. To him, the drama as we have it is the work of such a maiden lady, and he wishes to substitute for it something comparable to the obvious popular method of the roller coaster, an engine which he appears to think has been a powerful instrument for good in the development of our American culture...
Miss Mary MacSwiney, sister of the late Terence MacSwiney, is daring the immigration officials to eject her from the country, threatening that if such an attempt is made she will go on hunger strike. There is an obvious and sensible retort for such a declaration that has evidently not occurred to the immigration authorities at New York...
...sake. Mr. Clarence S. Stein, who is apparently unaffected by this booster spirit, writes in the current number of The Survey of some breakdowns in the superstructure of New York. "Inadequate housing facilities, inadequate water supplies, inadequate transportation", he writes," these are but the larger and more obvious ills that derive from congestion of population...
...Obvious Answer Best Remedy...
...Will the obvious answer to each these problems prove the best remedy or the situation? It seems logical that increasing the number of tutors would settle the first difficulty. Yet, if enough were added to warrant the endeavor, a substantial outlay would be necessary. Furthermore, competent teachers are not always available. It is therefore plain that an extension of the tutorial system must take place over a prolonged period of time. However, that it is the aim of the Faculty at Harvard to make the extension of the system one of its primary objects is to be inferred from President...