Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...journalist, which might induce him to take as pleasantly gloomy an outlook as possible on the future of this great republic. If the age of accountability is placed at twelve, as it usually is, and many of the children examined were only ten or eleven, it is fairly obvious that these pseudo-scientific data may be received with several grains of salt...
After several comparisons of the difference in the religious attitude of students at Harvard and Oxford, Mr. Pomeroy remarked that argumentative discussion and original journalism are not as much in evidence in America as in England. That the first part of this conclusion is justified has been obvious recently at Oxford-Harvard debates; the American is formal where the Englishman is personal. The present critic is correct, also, in his analysis. With the departure of the toddy-bowl and the clay pipe has gone the American student's tendency to foregather of evenings, and talk endlessly of shoes and ships...
...Charles Lesage has written a book entitled Napoleon, the First Creditor of Prussia. The object of the work is to point out that Napoleon never succeeded in extracting the indemnity which was accepted by the Prussians in the Treaty of Tilsit. The moral is obvious...
...great adventure (TIME, Jan. 28) and that these sparks would have set it on fire, had it been filled with hydrogen, Dr. Howe-through the pages of his journal-demanded to know why this important fact has been overlooked in official and press discussions. "What is back of this obvious effort to have the American people forget helium...
...seems obvious that despite the great to-do being made on the Teapot Dome affair, taxation will be a political issue of first magnitude next Fall. Most business men are now wishing that the election were over, the political back-biting over; that the opportunity were presented to readjust our taxes calmly and scientifically, without political interference...