Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...originally dashed off in all seriousness by Harold MacGrath, who never wrote a funny thing in his life. Director Reisner has added certain obvious touches of humor, and Syd Chaplin's latest crop of gags has complete the remodelling. Why they over bothered about MacGrath's story in the first place one can scarcely say. It would have been much better to start clean; so to speak...
...delightful pleasures by constant repetition become so much a part of life that they often receive too little true appreciation. The readings which Professor Copeland has made so much a part of the happiest traditions of the University have, however, failed to suffer this fate--and for a rather obvious reason...
...fraction of its former size, faced on three sides by recently subject and vajuely hostile peoples in Hungary, Jugo-Slavia, and Czech-Slovakia, the Austrians naturally look in the fourth direction for help and find the racial and historical affinities of the German republic offering them an obvious solution. It is impossible to prephesy what would be the result on the European political situation if Germany were to be reinforced by this considerable homogeneous addition. Yet the more one contemplates the situation, the more one is drawn to the conclusion that the Germanic peoples will shortly be united more firmly...
...Here our obvious general policy should be to maintain our naval aviation in due relation to the fleet. Our national policy calls for the establishment of the air strength of our army primarily as an agency of defense...
...status of minor sports in the University. The plan to be considered,--the giving of a minor "H" to members of championship teams in place of the present award, has in its favor the success of a similar practice at Yale and other universities, as well as the obvious fairness of special recognition of successful teams by the University. It is well known that many sports which at Harvard maintain a tenuous existence at best, flourish in other places. At most of these institutions some such plan as that suggested here is in effect. Whether or not there...