Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interesting to note that the British paved the way for their active participation in the Ruhr dispute by a long series of diplomatic soundings, followed by financial actions and economic threats against the French. It is obvious that much diplomatic correspondence has passed between the British Foreign Office and the governments of Italy, Belgium and Germany. It was necessary to get the first two nations on their side before making a pronunciamento on the Ruhr and reparations. It was equally necessary to have a tacit understanding with the Germans that they would be willing to accept British mediation along specific...
...more obvious aspects of the battle showed that Dempsey's twoyears of idleness have mellowed his potency. No longer can he pulverize with a punch. No longer, indeed, can he always " connect " with that punch. His speed has lost its deadliness; his eye has fallen into error...
...efforts. In some of them the obstacles came from outside; in others from a false start in the wrong direction. In all, the end was a notable contribution to the world. Probably each of these men would, throughout his life, have marked as disappointments many lesser things besides the obvious ones that have been here observed. To the ambitious in the best sense of the term, it often, seems that life is an unending series of failures which in the total sum make up success. The higher the goal a man sets before himself the more frequently will he fall...
...alumnus may let all the intervening commencements slip by with hardly a thought for his perennially expectant Alma Mater. Not so the twentieth. The reasons are fairly obvious. At forty-one or forty-two years of age even a human dynamo feels strongly the temptation to pause for breath and take a look backward. He discovers then a strong curiosity concerning his forgotten classmates. How do they look after twenty years. How much have they got? What do they know? It may be assumed that he has attained by now to what he considers a respectable position in life. Hence...
...York City, a gentleman named Hylan, to investigate charges briefly advanced by Mr. Hirshfield, to the effect that histories in use in New York schools were pro-British. Mr Hirshfield's qualifications consisted of his office as Commissioner of Accounts of New York City and his obvious 100% Americanism. He had the further inestimable advantage of not being an historian. And he knew how to read...