Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with drawn nightsticks in answer to a summons for aid, not a riot call. The police, in other words, created a riot before quelling it. In the second place, even had there been a riot the choice of methods made by the police was bad. There is a quite obvious distinction between a few hundred students and a howling mob bent on destruction. The police used methods applicable to the latter...
...hand," he said, "my mind is on nothing but the game. Incidentally, I have found that this not only helps my own game but operates as a sort of mental hazard to my opponents. An attitude of indifference toward the other fellow's game and an obvious confidence in your own, coupled with an extreme care in every shot, eventually forces him to the conclusion that you are in fallible and breaks down his morale...
Perhaps there was more in it than met the eye, but most people set the grim facts down to coincidence. "Explanations" by learned psychologists held little water beyond the obvious likelihood that one man's suicide might arrest the attention of another man who had contemplated suicide for himself...
...educational reasons for this move are no doubt obvious to all not personally involved. In the long run its advantages to the apllicant and to the secondary schools will be evident. The applicant's record will be considered complete at the end of his four-year preparatory course and of the College Entrance Examination Board examinations based upon this course. The examiner needs no further evidence of fitness beyond the school record as tested by written examinations and confirmed by the confidential report of principal or headmaster. The boy is the father of the man, in college as well...
...Christ that had caused so much ferment in Sculptor Kalish's native Cleveland. As everywhere, there were plenty of people to quarrel with the artist's anatomical exaggerations and inaccuracies; his tendency to pose a character rather than compose a type. But the majority marveled at his obvious sincerity and unusual power. Detroit, hive of industry, saw its own image and was content...