Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...struck a small ugly Latin, Robert Garcia, chal lenger, in the ribs with his fist and knocked him down. The Italian got up. Kaplan administered a long left hook. The Italian fell down, got up. Kaplan applied an other left to the body. The Italian fell down. It was obvious that he could rise no more, but at that instant the loud and insistent ringing of a bell informed his sup porters that the round was over and that it behooved them to purvey their battered advocate to his cor ner. In the ninth round Kaplan knocked him down three...
...deserted lecture halls. Its 575 pages are more simple, vivid and downright readable than the average run of best-seller fiction, not excepting the direct quotations from philosophic works, which are invariably well chosen to promote clarity and to demonstrate flavors. As a textbook for classrooms it has obvious shortcomings - the jump from Aristotle to Bacon; the skimming of Descartes and Hume. But it is something of a service to the unphilosophical public to have published such a book just prior to the convening [in September, at Harvard (TIME, April 5)] of the first International Philosophical Congress ever...
Good and Naughty (Pola Negri). The Polish star is obviously hungry for stories. In this one the plot splits early and falls apart, leaving only the most obvious recourse to door-slamming society slapstick. Miss Negri impersonates a young feminine assistant in an architect's office. Her duty in life seems to be to save one of the junior partners from an unworthy alliance with a married woman. Later the story shifts to Florida and farce runs wild. Miss Negri is less at home with heedless humor than she is with the hot cyclones of emotion...
Significance. Sir Malcolm Delevingne was far from smoothing matters over when he contemptuously refused to take offense, postulating instead an obvious truth: that "the Chinese delegates represent only themselves," because the new "Government of China" (TIME, Dec. 8, 1924, CHINA) exists merely as a puppet show whose wires are pulled by military adventurers. (See CHINA...
According to the conception of sovereign ethics prevalent before the war, this holdup is no doubt justifiable, simply because it is possible. But the new spirit of internationalism which attempts to prevent costly disturbances can not afford to tolerate the more obvious forms of obstruction...