Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...often men go through college without making the acquaintance of even the most obvious treasures of the University. Either because of indifference or lack of information the Germanic Museum, which was opened to the public just a year ago, is generally ignored by undergraduates, although many outsiders are regular visitors...
...obvious result is that the value of all degrees is cheapened and that all personal spontaneity will tend to be knocked out of university intellectual life, as long as degrees are the paramount object in view...
...Equally obvious are ways in which the "Ph.D. Octopus" may be kept in check, if applied before it is too late. If the standards were lowered, and the doctorate degree given for so much training, with the nightmare of Examination removed, a good deal of the present possibility of corruption could be eliminated. If private letters of introduction from instructors were to be substituted for the wage-earning qualities of a Ph.D., the inordinate desire for extra letters of the alphabet to place after one's name would largely disappear. Finally, if degrees were treated as secondary in importance...
...divorce him so that he may fulfill the clause in the contract. She goes with Peter to the country for a few weeks, until the Doctor and Mariott, unable to bear the loneliness of life in the city, suddenly join them. From there the obvious conclusion is easily reached...
...excellent work in the scence where she is supposed to be under great nervous strain, but on the whole the acting lacked that sureness of touch which the play demands if it is to be lifted out of the commonplace. The characterization is not subtile, but neither is it obvious; careful handling of the parts is essential to a good effect. As Peter, Miss Goad's voice is much against her, and her portrayal of the boy was not always sucessful. Mr. Charlton as Doctor Garret is too repressed he finds it so easy to look grim and sad that...