Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...actually,--pigs. The horror of the imputation would be unspeakable,--but fortunately we know better. With the authentic load of hymn-books, blunderbusses, bed-warmers and spinning-wheels, could there have been also room for swine? The question is rhetorical; there could not. But the trend of things is obvious. How soon will someone discover that Douglas wrote the Gettysburg Address...
...most frequent comments made by European professors contrasting American university education with that of England or the Continent is the overemphasis put by Americans on the importance of marks. Scholarship cannot be measured to fit into convenient pigeonholes marked A or C. The ineffectiveness of the standard is obvious under present conditions. A. D. in one course may be worth more to a man than a B in another. Raising the standard would change the hunt for "snap Cs" to one for "snap Bs" without lessening the present exaggerated position of marks sought for their own sake...
...demand for football tickets so far exceeds the limits of the Stadium that no scheme of distribution can be expected to satisfy all applicants or even to be accepted by them as just. Many persons believe that in the Harvard seats last year the obvious hostility to Harvard teams was caused by the restrictions imposed on members of the University who were not graduates of the University and were supposed to be less interested in Harvard athletics than Harvard graduates. It is the purpose of the Committee to study the situation with care before the next distribution of tickets...
...subject of the French occupation of the Ruhr, the impression he left was that it was an act of military aggression on the part of France, and that France was wholly responsible for any evil results that might follow. It is, however, perfectly obvious, to any one who thinks clearly, that if England had not deserted her ally on the question of reparations, France would not have needed to try to collect her debt in this way. By this act of perfidy, Germany was encouraged to believe that, by holding out, she could escape her just debt. This left nothing...
...unless to quarrel with Mr. Cowley's eccentricities of capitalization and punctuation; for, after all, these things are only a convention, and of importance only as they help or hinder the expression of the poetic idea. But their danger is more obvious in other of Mr. Cowley's poems, where a desperate effort to be "modern" at any cost takes heavy toll from his sense of beauty. The evil effect of this strained modernism, this pursuit of superficial novelty as an end in itself, is of course more operative in all the arts today,--though there are at least...