Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...January morning, the Blue Fleet, under Admiral S. S. Robinson, reached the southern ( Pacific) entrance of the Canal. Major General S. D. Sturgis, in charge of the Canal's defense, concentrated his force of 9,000 men to defend the northern entrance, but only the more obvious points of attack could be protected and only a small fraction of the guns manned...
...accomplished comediennes than Grace George and Laura Hope Crews. The scenes between them are studies in the impalpable artistry of personality. The cast of their compatriots is evenly competent, distinguished in the playing of Mary Ellis and Arthur Sinclair. Aside from some disturbing descents into melodrama and the rather obvious machinery of plot, the play is a decided addition to the display spread for the metropolitan multitude...
...vagueness, generality, and the repetition of much that was in the President's recent report. Both speak of the over-crowding of the University class-rooms, laboratories, lecture courses, and dormitories; both point out that something must be done in the direction of limitation: neither, for very obvious reasons, suggests a method. That will come later. What both reports have ably done is to impress on everyone interested the necessity of action--definite action. And due to this reiteration whatever plan is adopted is guaranteed at least a welcome. For it will come not as a gratuitous surprise...
...whom it is amusing. Prayer, regardless of all other theories, is at least an attitude of deep thought. For us to be amused that we are the object of serious thought of intelligent men, is not only to insult their intelligence, but to assume for ourselves a position of obvious self-satisfaction...
...markings on the planet Venus that the period of rotation of Venus on her axis is the same as her revolution around the sun. Slipher confirmed this by spectroscopic analysis. Now if Venus turns on her axis once while she is revolving once around Old Sol, it is obvious that the same face of the planet is always turned toward him. In other words, one side has been baked by the sun's heat for countless aeons, while the other is chilled by everlasting night. Indraughts of tremendous power in the Venusian atmosphere must rush from the cold...