Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philippines could be given their independence now, if necessary", said Mr. Forbes, "but the many disadvantages of this are obvious. The majority of the natives of the islands are illiterate, and, since they are not able to read newspapers, there is a dearth of intelligent public opinion among the great part of them. There is a certain amount of danger, therefore, if the Philippines get their independence at the present time, that the educated few would get almost autocratic control...
That the contest tonight is of interest to the Law School is more than obvious, but it is open also to all members of the University. To them, particularly to those undergraduates who are considering the Law School, this trial offers an opportunity to see something of its methods and possibilities. A better example of how Harvard legal training can be applied to actual disputes would be hard to find, and as such it furnishes the best possible advice to "doubtfuls" on "Shall I go to Law School...
...suggestions have been received, but new points come up every year which appear so obvious that men wonder why they have never thought of them before. Further improvement is always possible, and it only needs someone to bring suggestions to the attention of those with power to translate them into action. Yale has hit up-on the scheme of a series of debates among discussion groups of twenty or more men, upon the subject of "What is Yale for?" The first meeting of these resulted in a keen criticism and discussion of features of undergraduate life. California has a Student...
...differed from our Shakspere because no impulse was edited in its utterance. His was the uncensored utterance of the psychology of his soul. He made no apologies. He left much to guess at and work out. But if you have the courage and the perseverance to discard the ever obvious, you find and will continue to find yourself free from the character-racking conventionalities of our useless modern civilization. His greatest admirers were his worst defaulters. Tolstoi, Gorki, etc. filched his work and vulgarized it, as did our very original, potent-seeming Bernard Shaw. But who cares for the fabric...
...amicable peace between England and Ireland has seemed the "summum bonum". To Cromwell after the Irish had rejected (strange to say) the ideas he strove so eloquently to impress on them, it seemed that they were but devils and irreconcilable papists, and that it was his painful but obvious duty to crush them. Yet he was puzzled. So was William before Londonderry--and after. So have been many others, but always down the centuries will ring the names of those who have fought and thought for Ireland Spenser, his fine sensibilities hurt both by the brutality of the people...