Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...easier possibility and leave the stiffer year until later. Yet the great majority, if put to the test, will have little difficulty in carrying five courses and passing them with three C's. The advantages of getting the extra course out of the way early are numerous and obvious; the danger of letting it pile up in the Senior year, like the necessary C's of the old plan, is most undesirable...
...bigotry are manifest. This recoiling from all languages except English, while perhaps excusable in war times, was ill-advised then, and now is absurd. The knowledge of two modern languages could be nothing but a boon, and the advantages of having them taught in the elementary schools is obvious...
...obvious that really good material for assistant deans must be scarce. The University has been successful in isolating some of the best, and the relations of the undergraduates with the authorities have consequently been most fortunate. Especially productive of good results is the practice of assigning the same dean to a class for as many years as possible. Student and dean thus come to meet on terms of intimacy and confidence and the effect on discipline and harmony is inestimable...
...Agamemnon and Mount Vernon are 20 years old. The Shipping Board estimated that similar ships could be built new for $12,000,000 each. The conclusion was obvious: $8,000,000 apiece was too much for reconditioning. Instead, the Board announced its intention of asking Congress for money to build two new ships. It is more or less problematic whether Congress will grant the money and sink more money in the expensive business of ship owning, which at present is popularly supposed to be costing the Government $50,000,000 a year...
...deduction is fairly obvious and gives an answer. Mayor Hylan is the friend of the people, the people's choice. He lunches with the Street, hobnobs with Washington Square, nods to Fifth Avenue, and chucks the Bowery under the chin. He is a "man so various that he seemed to be not one, but all mankind's epitome". Mayor Hylan is the soul of New York; it is his Jubilee...