Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story that one Dr. Jerome Wagner, identified as a "brother of United States Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York" was detained at Rouse's Point and fined for the illegal importation of liquors. Since Dr. Jerome Wagner is in no wise related to the Senator, it is obvious that your publication is guilty of unjustifiably connecting the Senator's name with an illegal...
...Jefferson ethos. Though she was far too discreet to lend herself overtly to the Smith campaign, Lady Astor became part and parcel of one of the strangest Presidential years in U. S. history?as her astute sister had doubtless planned she should. There were no speech-makings, no obvious handshakings, yet the overtone was unmistakable?Lady Astor home for a visit while her sister worked for "Al" Smith's election...
...experience consequent upon assuming more responsibility a year early will be made up in even the best advice. Then again the process might be found to be merely borrowing from Peter to pay Paul, overworking the junior for the sake of saving the senior. There is left, then the obvious question as to whether such a policy could be effective on a wide enough basis to benefit many. The matter should be worth serious consideration, however, for in theory it has much to commend it. The practical application of the plan on a small scale, in the managership...
...that he lost sleep. Several of the catechized broke down, one wept convulsively. All were arrested on bribery and extortion charges. Toward midnight they lined up in the City Hall corridors. They marched to jail, ironically led by Capt. Cohen. Amid the boos of jailbirds, the catcalls of more obvious and unashamed criminals, they were debadged...
Fifty-three per cent of the marrying Alumnae of Radcliffe attract Harvard husbands. But five per cent of them reach out after M. I. T. men. This fact must be considered significant. Why should Harvard men be favored in such preponderance? The obvious answer is to be found in the superiority of the Coop and Widener Library as trysting places over the barren laboratories of the, Technological Institute...