Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Memorial Hall failed for reasons sufficiently obvious to all those who were closely acquainted with the University. That it has nevertheless left a rift in undergraduate life is beyond question. It is to be hoped that, as President Lowell suggests, the University will take under advisement in the not too far distant future some plan for its replacement, not in the old form so as to revive the old difficulties and objections, but with changes adapted to the transformations in modern Harvard life more centrally located eating half smaller, and not requiring mass attendance for its success even...
...hill job. If society isn't listening and critics let it all in one ear and out the other while they listen to what the lady in the row behind is saying it is no use attempting to sing. On the other hand when it is obvious that the orchestra and balconies are filled by college students I am sure that the performance will be a success. The college boys have no ulterior reasons for coming. If they pay to take their friends to the theatre it is because they expect to enjoy themselves, and knowing that, the singers...
...immense satisfaction of authorities at Geneva, the United States is likewise giving the League statistics and information pertinent to League investigations, and has, moreover, departed from her quondam policy of answering League communications eight months after their receipt, now answering the with solicitous promptitude. The reason is obvious. After years of uncertainty, the United States is finally determined on isolation. After years of attempted conversion, the League has given the United States up for a bad job and left her to the good graces of that isolation. Being farther apart in fact, the two are closer together in understanding...
Wilson. "The Western Powers scornfully reproached Mr. Wilson with being misled by German evasions . . . [Germans] looked upon him as a pawn of the English. . . . As neophyte in the highest office in the Republic, he made obvious mistakes. . . . But it must be remembered that he felt and thought-not only spoke-as no other government head had done before...
...theory, unfortunate as it often is in its results, is that if a man be sufficiently full of his subject, the words will come. To betray attention to old time rules of inflection and gesture, imperfectly mastered, is far more disastrous to the modern speaker than to indicate the obvious fact that he has never studied...