Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Holyoke St. near Gore Hall, as well as the history library of the Lower Reading Room in Widener were to be transferred to the Boylston Laboratory building where they will, in all probability, occupy the main floor. This merging of the possessions of the two libraries has all obvious advantages in facilitating the acquisition of history texts...
...admirer of TIME and a follower of Luther, I take exception to having friend A smack friend B on the nose by calling him a "peasant" (TIME, Sept. 17, p. 9) for no reason which is obvious to the reader. The term is extremely misleading and smells too much of the rustic and ignorant as aptly to apply to a brilliant historic character...
What the Roman Catholic Church is believed to be to Nominee Smith, the Anti-Saloon League of America is known to be to Nominee Hoover-his largest organized backing outside of his political party. That the League would work for Hooverism was obvious. That it would endorse him outright was uncertain. Never before had it openly chosen between Presidential candidates...
...film length and observers noted that neither of his two operas (The Jazz Singer, The. Singing Fool) has been all-talk. Both have been all-sound. If Jolson, whose singing can lift a drooping piece, has not been permitted to do an all-talk piece, it is obvious that a lesser player, unable to break into song, must falter when the piece itself falters...
...ethical rights of the question are less obvious. Limitation of a varsity player's career to three seasons is commonly accepted among colleges and the Navy's insistence on it last year was in accord with the policy of most athletic departments. But the record of Army-Navy games in the past shows no such preponderance of victories for the former as the bare facts of the case might indicate, and by withdrawing from their former stand the Annapolis authorities tacitly admit that such matters are domestic problems bas settled by the institution concerned. The Navy suffers no loss...