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Word: obvious (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, the Pullman Porter, most famed servant in the U. S., started to go on strike. Then, at the last moment, he changed his mind, "for obvious reasons." But he said he would strike some other day, soon, if his grievances were not adjusted. He had been getting in a position to strike for at least three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Porters | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...play dealing with a thinly disguised Princeton, and satisfactorily presents the chief faults which an outsider is likely to find with "Old Nassau." The plot is rather obvious and, the questions it considers are similarly obvious...

Author: By G. P., | Title: BOOKENDS | 6/16/1928 | See Source »

...healthy thing for any institution, however, to have such a frankly self-critical play written and produced on its own campus, no matter how obvious that criticism...

Author: By G. P., | Title: BOOKENDS | 6/16/1928 | See Source »

...Tutorial System for the students who elect honors and retain their position with honor grades, may or may not be possible and desirable. But with the experiments with the Junior college, with classification of entrants, with such a pronouncement as that of the Yale council, acceptance of the obvious, in short., that freedom is stimulation and opportunity for the capable, and a pitfall for the many, emerges the certainty that the advocated segregation is the next step in progressive education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HONORS AT YALE | 6/7/1928 | See Source »

...short-story, "Children in Twilight," is excellent. The author, Otto E. Schoen-Rene, has produced a work of distinct literary merit, particularly his passages of pure description. It is a rare, thing to find "atmosphere" handled with so much skill that it does not appear to be obvious "literary effort." In addition to this story, is another very acceptable one by George C. Heck, Jr. One might wish that he had not ended it quite so abruptly, but it is, nevertheless, a very enjoyable tale. A delightful bit of nonsense, "The Ring and the Booklet" by Philip Nicholas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REVIEWER OF ADVOCATE SAYS STANDARD UPHELD IN CURRENT JUNE ISSUE | 6/6/1928 | See Source »

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