Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Presidency: "The German President on assuming office must swear fidelity to the Constitution. A German man keeps his oath. Every man of honor sees in this oath the obvious duty to protect the Constitution and the State by force, if necessary...
...this excellent institution for no very obvious reason, lapsed into discard? Such an organization performs manifold services. For developing ability in clear and forceful expression, it has no rival. It would be useful as a clearing-house of undergraduate and graduate, even faculty, opinion. But principally the value of this sort of organization lies in forcing young men to think about the problems they will soon, be called on to face. In the Oxford Union the great issues of the nineteenth century were first tussled over. The Debating Union can fulfill a real function; as a center of learning...
...seems too bad that the old system of registering marriages, children, and other incidentals was not as efficient as the present one. Perhaps in the more rapid days of Western expansion, it seemed unimportant to set down facts which were only too obvious at the time...
...science, through its treatment of the brain; will be a very high form of psychology. Dr. Carrel insisted, "It is obvious that the functions of the brain must be better understood in order that, without intellectual or moral deterioration the human race may stand the new conditions of life imposed on the individual by modern civilization...
...shoals in the Tennessee River, so much in evidence lately, got its name originally from the fresh water bivalves found there; perhaps TIME can explain why it is called Muscle Shoals? Is it because somebody did not know how to spell mussel? The relation between shoals and mussels is obvious enough, but my ignorance fails to discern any connotation between shoals and muscles...