Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lenin's reasons are obvious. The trade agreement means but one thing to him, prestige. Kronstadt is in revolution, cities are seething with, unrest, Southern Russia is in arms. The recognition of the Soviets by Great Britain will be a tremendous weapon against this anti-Bolshevist movement. For Lenin will not call it revolution and proclamations will be scattered broadcast declaring the Soviet Russian has compelled capitalistic Great Britain to accept her terms...
...that as Harvard men we can contribute to American culture the particular qualities of the University and its environment. Perhaps this is a sort of provincialism; but I prefer a vital provincialism to an emasculated nationalism, if we are concerned with the development of intellectual diversity. It is an obvious paradox that at institutions professing to reflect the American spirit in all its variety, democracy has invested the campus with a drab sameness. Cosmopolitanism, too, has its defects; and not the least of these is superficiality...
...obvious, of course, that no sort of pressure can compel Germany to perform the impossible. Just so long as the Allies demand the impossible, just so long will Germany find a means of evasion...
...about the effects by logical development and without the entrance of the element of chance to any greater degree than is found in life in the business world. This phase of the football training fully deserves special mention because it adds just that much to the other and more obvious advantages which participation in the game merits...
...test of time. Mr. Weeks and Mr. Davis are men of unquestioned ability and experience, and their national reputation will doubtless draw to them popular support. Mr. Daugherty, Harding's campaign manager and chief political reliance, and the surprising choice for Secretary of the Navy, owe their places to obvious political considerations...