Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dollars apiece and that the Athletic Association supports practically all other sports on football earnings barely breaking even at the end of the year, it takes no great genius to figure out that either the H. A. A. would either run $200,000 annually in the hole (an obvious impossibility), or else we would have to give up most of our minor sports and class teams in order to put University teams on the field...
...Japanese alliance is the now well-known Four Power Treaty between Great Britain, the United States, France, and Japan, the latter pledging themselves to respect each other's rights in the Islands of the Pacific, and in the event of a dispute to submit the matter to arbitration. An obvious advantage obtained by the United States is Japan's official pledge that it will respect American ownership of the Philippines...
...advantage of this method are obvious; the money is voluntarily contributed; no inequalities are emphasized; and there is no hint of charity. Rather than the system endorsed by Princeton's vote, the goal of a university should be to have a large endowment and a small tuition fee the same...
...moral is obvious. If we are to become a country of picture-lovers our museums must be gradually emptied. Let the Metropolitan in New York sell The Old Lady Paring Her Nails for $1,000,000, and all the city will flock to wave her bon voyage. Or let our own Fogg Museum close out stock, beginning with one of the Venetian masters. The Economics Department, meeting in Holden Chapel, would yield the New Lecture Hall to the votaries of the Arts...
Municipal administration has always been a weak point in American government, for the obvious reason that the best men refused to take an interest in it. It is an unfortunate fact that the financial returns are at present insufficient, and still more unfortunate that we have not, as in England, a spirit of civic patriotism that draws educated and able men into politics. We have had to pay for our lack of interest by putting up with a dozen Curleys, Hylans and Thompsons for every executive of real ability like Nathan Matthews and John Purroy Mitchell. If Senator Walsh rightly...