Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Germany there is nothing but frank despair," said Commissioner Noyes, continuing his discussion from Germany's point of view. "Of course, there is one obvious thing, namely, that Germany does not want to pay. But there is a second fact, equally obvious--that France would not allow Germany to pay even if she could meet the reparations demanded, which are, even in their revised form, 43 per cent of the total wealth of Germany before the war. The ability to pay the reparations is necessarily concomitant with military strength. This France does not want Germany to regain. The position...
President Harding has a Cabinet again. The resignation of Secretary Fall for announced reasons of ill health left a vacancy difficult to fill. When Secretary Hoover and Mr. John Hays Hammond, obvious first choices, refused the position, the President found himself in a difficulty...
There is a new kind of literature abroad in the land, whose only obvious fault is that no one can understand if. Last year there appeared a gigantic volume entitled Ulysses, by James Joyce. To the uninitiated it appeared that Mr. Joyce had taken some half million assorted words- many such as are not ordinarily heard in reputable circles-shaken them up in a colossal hat, laid them end to end. To those in on the secret the result represented the greatest achievement of modern letters-a new idea in novels...
...most heartily do I welcome the sane utterance of Dr. Steinmetz and rejoice that he has so adequately stated the truth. The only fault that I would fine with Dr. Steinmetz' utterance, indeed, is that perhaps he might have gone further still and pointed out the obvious truth that there are other "facts" than those which lie in the realm of the material. Faith, itself, is a fact, even though it can neither be weighed, felt, smelt, tasted, or experienced by any other sense perception. Love is another such fact. Penitence is another such fact. Hope is another such fact...
...view of the officers and committee that the picnic, in its present form should be abolished and that the reasons for such action were numerous and obvious. It was also felt that the picnic, although a tradition, was obsolete and even dangerous...