Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obvious reasons Germany is on the opposite tack. Classicism was never anything but a series of intellectual exercises in Germany. And Germany is too doubtful of the future to rely upon the past. The official departments (under the Constitution, the Reich has the power to make school laws for the states along general lines) plan the study of one foreign and one classical language and the preparation of children to face the practical problems of life in present-day Germany...
From these figures it is obvious that a period of business liquidation is well under way, and the current movement of stock prices has substantial causes...
...indeed difficult to name, offhand, another college class to equal Amherst '95. The obvious comparison is Princeton '79, whose membership includes Woodrow Wilson, Mahlon Pitney (former Justice of the United States Supreme Court), Cyrus H. McCormick (head of the International Harvester Co.), Robert Bridges (editor of Scribner's Magazine), Cleveland H. Dodge (major capitalist and philanthropist...
...introduction to the best that has been written in every language. It will not educate the uneducated nor furnish, in itself, a royal road to learning, but within its scope it is valuable and, as far as space allows, complete. Readably written, though without any touch of distinction, its obvious merits should bring it wide and deserved popularity. It will set no mind afire, in all probability-but then, the most valuable mental eruptions are generally produced by spontaneous combustion...
Casanova's Homecoming, by Arthur Schnitzler, deals with that celebrated scamp, charlatan and boudoir-athlete at a time when he could no longer conceal from himself the obvious fact that he was getting on in years, and that his attractions as a heartbreaker were on the wane. Nevertheless, he resolves to have one last fling with a lady named Marcolina, and, by means of rather disgraceful hoax, accomplishes his aims, and, as was always his custom, escapes all vengeance. The tale is well written?the author a distinguished international figure in the literary world? but, except for its suave manner...