Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...immediately obvious that when Dr. Wilbur says "university", he really means "college", for even a superficial examination of the personnel of Eastern graduate schools must show that their students are drawn not from one state or one class of society, but from all over the world; and that this cosmopolitanism must reflect itself in the thought of any given institution. There can hardly be any such thing as a single type of mentality...
Several times recently you have published curious letters over my signature which have given me more publicity than amusement. The first, in its obvious connection with the Business School number of the Lampoon, seemed to be apropros and somewhat funny. I can take a joke. But this last, lacking both humor and originality, being neither relevant nor in good taste, is so banal as to be scarcely credible. Really the CRIMSON sleuths should expose these scurrilous scribes. I feel sure that they are the same individuals who steal the books from Widener...
Cape Smoke. Since White Cargo has run over 500 performances and has been sued for plagiarism, the necessity of an imitation was obvious. This new African adventure is a good deal louder than White Cargo and a lot funnier. Most of the laughter...
...Corbett actually wrote the book himself, though there is obvious rearranging and condensing by another hand...
...peculiar attribute of their class. The facts have often been stated with adequate figures to prove them. The strange part of it is that all such sweeping generalities sound impertinent to the individual. Society's plea for a dozen children is rendered of little account by the obvious personal advantages of having only one or two. It is evident that the entire matter tests with the individuals who compose society, and that the vague future good of the race is not in itself a very potent breeder of large families...