Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obvious, therefore, that although only 358,000 immigrants arrive officially, the actual number is considerably greater, and Southern Europeans and Mexicans are probably arriving in numbers several times as great as their quotas...
...reverts more and more into a fox, and at last is killed by the hounds. Mr. Garnett might easily have been grotesque, sensational and melodramatic, or merely absurd. Instead, he has written a fable in the best tradition. His style is serious and poetic; he avoids the obvious grotesqueness of his story, and achieves a work...
...special committee on admission has come to the obvious conclusions and announced the expected decision. The University "must maintain its traditional policy of freedom from discrimination on the grounds of race or religion." A few critics will complain that the report, with so many additional suggestions, leaves the issue just as much open as ever; far more will notice with disappointment that the committee has stood in evident dread of arousing "damaging suspicion" through the popular press and that it has feared to recommend "so rational a method" as personal conference or intelligence tests because it "appears inexpedient...
Whatever may be the advantages of one situation over the other, it seems obvious that the problems of education in England are approximately the same as those faced in the United States. H. A. L. Fisher, Pres- ident of the English Board of Education during the War, contributes to the current Yale Review an account of his incumbency which might well have been written by an American State head of schools during the same period. The manner would be different and the names would change, but the substantial facts would be much the same...
...think back to the eighteenth century or the Italian Renaissance, it is obvious that in our day and generation, the Classics are somewhat in eclipse. But there have been times when the clouds were even more thickly about them. As Odysseus remarked to his soul, "Bear it, brave heart; thou hast borne harder things than this." To those who know what treasures are laid up in the literatures of Greece and Rome, what opportunities for a culture at once nobly aristocratic and broadly human, there is no question that however long deferred, the day of the ancients will come again...