Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obvious conclusion arrives. Poorer, wiser and more awake to the dignity of washing dishes, Mary returns to Cinder Town. Once more the kinetic nobility of Furze charges her heart with true love. He takes her to be his housekeeper. If she succeeds at her tasks, he will marry her. She succeeds...
There are also less obvious analogies between these two great cases, analogies that do not appear in the trial records, but which are no less certain. In the Dreyfus case, the "honor" of the French army was involved, and before the trial was over, the prosecution had found it necessary to commit forgery and withhold evidence in order to save that "honor". In the present case, the dignity of Massachusetts courts is involved, and this dignity has made it necessary for the court to refuse motions for a new trial when there exists more than a reasonable doubt...
...smooth and even Mr. Huberman as the poet looks his part, and makes it sufficiently wistful, and Miss Fay Goeil plays the Girl with taste and conviction. The play, written some years ago for the English 47 Workshop, is by Eugene Fillot. Its moral is perhaps a little obvious, but it does succeed in fixing one's attention and curiosity upon the revelation awaited from the lips of the Satisfied...
...through natural fermentation or otherwise." Thus he sternly interpreted the paragraph of the Volstead Act that states that a householder needs no permit and cannot be punished for manufacturing "non-intoxicating cider and fruit juices exclusively for use in his own home." The law, purposely or otherwise, ignored the obvious fact that cider becomes hard, fruit juices gather alcoholic strength in time; Judge Hand added what the law had forgotten. Many Wets chuckled, said Dry-voting farmers might change their tune under a ruling that prohibits their hard cider and home-brewed wine...
While thousands of dollars are being solicited for the new Fraternity houses, many people, the fraternity men most of all, are asking themselves what fraternities accomplish. Without attempting to answer this question, it is obvious that if they accept the position of clearing houses of public opinion, there will be no doubt in any one's mind as to their true worth. --Yale Daily News...