Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...photography in the study of Fine Arts is exemplified at its best in the exhibition of photographs taken by Professor Clarence Kennedy of Smith College, now being shown in the Print Room of the Fogg Art Museum. For obvious reasons satisfactory photographs of sculpture are far more difficult to obtain than those of paintings. They demand a sympathetic study of the object from innumerable points of view, and in varying lights and shadows in order to bring out the essential and finest qualities. Appreciating this to the full, and realizing the importance of good reproductions for the use of students...
Nevertheless it is obvious that an efficient news service whereby important items could be systematically and promptly relayed between colleges would be extremely useful...But such a service can hardly be carried on satisfactorily by an agency that merely selects suggestive miscellaneous items from papers several days after they appear. Even this can be done more thoroughly by individual papers for themselves through direct exchanges. The Intercollegiate Press, of course, has the advantage of being in touch with a larger number of colleges than any one journal can be, but at present that touch appears to be too remote...
Your brilliancy of writing sometimes makes the meaning a trifle cryptic, but she enjoys discovering it in her own fashion and finds no objection to it on the score of its not being obvious. She expects to remain a constant reader and admirer as in the past...
...Porter Resolution, Mr. Gray explained, proposes that Chinese representatives should be invited to Washington to confer on the revision of the treaty. A revision will be of obvious benefit to China but will not be detrimental to the United States in any way. "Our exports to China are of the sort that probably would be admitted duty free," said Mr. Gray. "This is not so with England and Japan, however, for it is from those countries that cotton goods are now sent to China, and the cotton industry is one which the Chinese wish to foster by protection...
...will serve very well. versy with labor leaders. He was naturally opposed to the "closed" shop; and on one occasion "gave labor a violent shock when he called "the scab' an American hero. Labor leaders, nevertheless, respected and even liked him." They could not help reacting favorably to his obvious sincerity, earestness and courage...