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Word: obvious (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...image of a sower. In addition to this local legend are figures and inscriptions symbolizing great government. From various corners, growing architecturally out of the walls, the austere faces of great lawgivers survey the prairies-Hammurabi, Moses, Pharaoh, Solon, Solomon, the Caesars, Charlemagne, Napoleon. No carven motto is more obvious than that above the Supreme Court bench: "Eyes and ears are poor witnesses when the soul is barbarous." All of the ornament has significance and is worked into the fabric of the building. The Goodhue family are oldtime Connecticut dwellers. Architect Goodhue was born in Pomfret Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Nebraska Capitol | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...obvious solution for the private schools is to alow their students a great deal more freedom in alloting their time so that when they do find themselves in a position when they have more latitude they will know...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OVER EDUCATION | 4/23/1929 | See Source »

...President Hoover. Excerpts: "The need for college graduates in state and national politics is the need for trained minds and formed characters that exists in all departments of modern life. ... As politics is but one aspect of the social order, its need of men of special educational equipment is ... obvious." ¶ To the White House last week went a 14 ¼-pound Penobscot salmon, carefully packed in ice and moss. What made this salmon different: It was the first caught upon the opening of the Bangor Pool. Presidential salmon-catcher: Horace W. Chapman of Bangor. ¶ Mrs. Hoover sat, last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Message No. i | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

International Paper Co. is not its own master. It is merely a money-losing subsidiary of International Paper & Power Co., a holding company formed last year when newsprint prices were bad and it became obvious that more valuable than International Paper's coniferous forests were the rivers that rushed through those forests with vast potential horsepower (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Power and the Press | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...obvious remedy for this privation as seen by the individual, is to cut down his science courses to a minimum and concentrate in some field which holds less interest for him. Not only does this involve personal hardship, but it loses for the science departments many men who might later be a credit and a source of strength to them. Only from motives of self interest then and even without any consideration for the rights or convenience of individuals, the authorities in charge would seem to be justified in a relaxation of the restrictions now imposed on laboratory working time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LIBERTY AND EQUALITY | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

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