Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles Gates Dawes has a certain hold on the imagination of the nation. The reasons for it are fairly obvious when one examines his record. The fact of it was observable as soon as his nomination was announced. In a short time he had issued a brief acceptance...
...commerce which consists in pandering to the tastes of a portion of the public- sometimes at the expense of truth, always at the expense of fairness. Like thieving, yellow journalism exists in many varieties. There is the simple ruffianly attack. There is the subtler, less violent and less obvious form of getting away with it. The latter form of yellow journalism is usually practiced by those who go about in a cloak of respectability, wrap themselves up in a scarf of fairness and wear the hat of honest citizenry. Freud coupled the instinct of prudery with the instinct of license...
...come out with a theory that at sun spot maxima, worldly affairs are excited and wars, revolutions, migrations, etc.. break out. He thinks he has traced definite cycles of such historical events in the 19th Century paralleling the sun spots. The purely fantastic character of this conjecture is obvious; the problem of the physical influence of the spots is by no means solved...
...percentages after being all set out seem to prove very little except the obvious. Advertising has increased. Radio has made its appearance. Sport has picked up. But in general the analysis fails to prove anything. It is only by getting at the figures of the actual quantity of news retailed that changes are really apparent...
Whatever the reason or the combination of reasons for his coming, it is obvious, as the Herald-Tribune almost points out, that once the candidate has involuntarily located himself with the academic gates, the logical thing for his official and self-constituted advisers to do is to acquaint him with the value of a liberal education, both in itself and as a means to other ends. This is done by a variety of methods, chief among which is an exaltation of the theory of "mens sana in corpora sane", and a reduction of the learning process to a series...