Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...practice of having conferences of Governors of States is gradually taking form. It remains to be seen whether Governors' conferences will develop into a national institution. The advantage of these conferences as an aid to the coordination of government in a Nation composed of 48 states is obvious. It makes possible the exchange of valuable experience expensively acquired in legislation and executive action. It makes possible unification, or at least conformation of 48 diverse law codes. It makes for intra-national understanding...
...once all good journalists recalled and "hashed up" the obvious parallel, the career of Marcus Alonzo Hanna...
...medical and dental schools, the entire University will be quartered in the pile, uncrowded even when its students number 12,000. Moreover, massing all schools and departments together in one building was felt to make for unity in the educational idea imparted to the students. A final, obvious consideration was economy of terrain...
...this discovery may be studied a number of arcane reactions which, because of the crudity of moment-measuring contrivances, have never before been accessible to the science of physics. Some of the more obvious of such phenomena are: 1) the difference noticeable in the time of the fall of two bodies of the same shape but of contrasting material, when permitted to fall in a rarified atmosphere; 2) the difference in the time required to transmit sound for a given distance over a radio as compared to a telephone wire...
...erected by any community to tell its own living will", says Chancellor Bowman of the new edifice. The determination to rise to dizzy heights instead of staying close to the ground is masked under the cloak of convenience, saving in land investment, better light, etc., but it is perfectly obvious that an exuberant community is merely indulging in a little self-advertising. No starting academic progress may be expected from such an innovation, and on the grounds of sentiment the thing becomes preposterous. Buildings pleasantly mantled with ivy, the play of sunlight among structures dedicated each to a special function...