Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arthur E. Holt, professor of sociology at Chicago Theological Seminary, wished to trace down to actual statistics the obvious facts that in proportion to total numbers far fewer workingmen, especially union men, belong to churches than do professional and business men. To do this he prepared a table showing the proportions of different men groups in Chicago's total men population and in Chicago's Church rosters. His table and conclusions he printed last week in The Christian, Disciples of Christ magazine...
...which has more than its share of them.'' It is she that is most to blame for the book's failure. Mr. Bromfield has undoubtedly met the type but he has never, apparently, been sufficiently interested in an Emma Downes to draw of her more than an obvious, uninspired caricature...
...objectionable, said Miss Gail Laughlin, lawyer of Portland, Me., first vice chairman of the Party. It took men long years of fighting to get a standard eight-hour day, but it is the eight-hour day for women that the Woman's Party is vigorously opposing. The obvious difference between male and female eight-hour days is that a man with an eight-hour day can make extra money working extra hours, but a woman in an eight-hour-day-for-women state is prohibited from toiling a minute beyond the alloted period. "Such restrictions, said Miss Laughlin" have...
...Louisiana; nothing has been done about repairing them, and it is feared that so much time has been lost already that the openings cannot be closed in time for the next spring rise of the Mississippi. With much of the land below the level of the river, it is obvious that even a small rise in the waters would cause another catastrophe. It is reported that Federal authorities wish to have one-fourth of the levee repair work (cost estimated at $50,000,000) paid for by the people of the flood region, but how these people are going...
...American Chemical Society. Sessions began last week with some 200 gentlemen present whose business it is to determine what the world is made of and how it may be put together in better combinations of the ingredients. In Industry. The importance of chemistry in industry is now too obvious to need emphasis, but the delegates took special satisfaction in knowing that the huge U. S. Steel Corp. has lately organized a pure research department "of proper magnitude," with Professor John Johnston (from Yale) as active head and Director Robert Andrews Millikan of California Institute of Technology as chief adviser...