Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...data available leads to an obvious conclusion. America is wealthy, powerful, and politically-minded. She holds a strategic position in the economic world and possesses enough political ability to exploit it. And her journalists respond with unpremeditated "hurrahs". While the rope of sand holds, this new "Condescension in Americans" will retain its still plebeian savoir faire...
...result been decisive either way, its significance would have been obvious. As it is, the only fact that can be deduced with certainty is that students have not yet made up their minds one way or another. Most students are probably agreed that such a plan to divide the College into smaller units would have a profound effect upon Harvard life and education if it should be adopted. Many students, as the vote indicates, think this effect would be beneficial. Others, and the vote shows there are two hundred more of these, think it would not. But the question remains...
There is no excuse for being vulgar. A few weeks ago a communication was run on the same day that this column appeared. The communication concerned Harvard and a buggy ride. The reason it was run was obvious. Some journalist wanted to show that there are still barbarians in Cambridge. He evidently forgot that people read the CRIMSON before breakfast. And did you see the advertisement for the Dramatic Club play in the Lampoon--"Brown of Harvard is to be given five performances. Take your pick and come." I have an excellent...
...proposal, like the first, was defeated by a slight margin in the undergraduate vote, although it was sustained by a bare margin of ten in the faculty poll. Again in the result may fairly be called inconclusive, but on this question the reasons for the large disapproving vote are obvious enough...
Other Women's Husbands. Marriage-problem films are almost unquestionably the worst. They are cheap, obvious, false. This one is the same old story about the man who became interested in another woman when his wife went to the country...