Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American educational system is not designed to make people know the truth. It is tainted with propaganda and with the money of Big Business. . . . The obvious purpose . . . is to turn out job lots of men and women with brains as standardized as so many gum vending machines...
...employes he knows by face and name. He once remarked that his three dominant interests were "the great West," "railroad companies," and "helping to better medical education." There could be no more logical focus for these three interests than the Southern Pacific hospital. The causes of the gift are obvious, but its effects may not be so simple. A director and member of the executive committee of the Southern Pacific, Mr. Harkness nonetheless seems to regard the road as something more than a source of dividends. For a businessman to make donations to his company (which may exceed a year...
That college football has developed from a form of organized, spirited roughhouse to a vast national business is a fact that has long been obvious but seldom analyzed. Last week a journalist named Francis Wallace published some figures in The Saturday Evening Post. He showed that football's drawing power is about $50,000,000 a year, that some colleges make half a million out of their teams because they "get raw material, exploitation, and labor at slight cost. The schedule makers are planning five years ahead, signing contracts for attractive intersectional games, based no longer on natural rivalry...
Your issue of the third of October contained the rumor that the so called Harvard Socialist Club or members of that organization intend to stage an Anti War, Anti Army, Anti West Point demonstration. For obvious reasons such a demonstration at such a time would be in extreme bad taste. In some measure the University acts as host to West Point, the action of these socialists, however much publicity it might gain them, would add little to Harvard's reputation for sportsmanship...
...reason for this is fairly obvious to any one who stops to consider the function which pro tennis performs and compare it with the function of say boxing or baseball. The last two named serve only one purpose as professional sports and that is to amuse the spectator. Pro tennis on the other hand like pro golf has for its primary purpose the instruction of those who desire to learn the game so that they can play it themselves. Just why the stigma commonly associated with professionalism should attach to such an unquestionably worthy end is a mystery, but fortunately...