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Word: obvious (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...system complete in two years. Yale with a system quite as dissimilar, Cambridge under a totally different conception of the curriculum, can scarcely compete with Harvard under a divisional plan in absolute accord with the terms of the competition. Harvard has made its own rules. This would be an obvious stumbling block in any field of competition. And particularly in the field of scholarship, one finds no definite limits, no rules of the game, whereby one and all may compete on the same grounds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BENEVOLENT DESPOTISM | 3/13/1929 | See Source »

...should certainly encourage the development for the appreciation of art, for a student is much more likely to take advantage of the opportunity to procure pictures to hang on his walls, than to make regular excursions to the University Museum. It is hoped that with this new plan, two obvious results will be forthcoming. One is to have the students more familiar with works of art, and secondly to give them the opportunity to form their own judgment on the pieces in question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Home | 3/12/1929 | See Source »

...sales work than any where else, because he actually brings in business to his company, and to the man who brings in business and makes money, the salary increases are apt to come with more frequency than to the man whose ability as a profit maker is not so obvious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Business World | 3/12/1929 | See Source »

Alexander. When Julius Csesar made his famed remark about preferring to be first in a little Iberian village rather than second in Rome, he of course left the obvious answer that to be first in Rome was the really desirable position. In the case of Banker James Strange Alexander, the little Iberian village was Tarrytown, N. Y., where his parents had settled after their arrival from Scotland. And had Banker Alexander remained in Tarrytown he would undoubtedly have become its first banker, as even at the age of 20 he was well along the road to advancement in a Tarrytown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Banks Bigger | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...sounding the alarm, warning French automakers to beware of increased U. S. competition. Inasmuch as total French motor car production-both trucks and passenger cars-amounts to about 250,000 cars per year, whereas U. S. automobile makers expect a 1,000,000 increase over 1928 production, it is obvious that many a new Ford will be competing with Citroen sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: $1,000 Ford | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

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