Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present seating capacity of the Stadium would as a natural result increase our gross income above the guarantees by something like $60,000 annually, and the net income by fully $30,000 after providing for interest on the investment and the sinking fund required. It is so obvious that more seats would result in an increase of our net income from the two capacity games now played annually in the Stadium that I am utterly unable to comprehend the process of reasoning followed by the CRIMSON in arriving at the conclusion that the building of more football seats would delay...
...course of time, the editorial arrived at the desk of the chairman of the Yale Daily News, undergraduate daily. It seemed an obvious thing to quote; so he marked it for quotation on the editorial page of his own publication. Next day, sure enough, students read in the News...
Roland Hayes, Negro tenor, sang in Carnegie Hall last week with standing room sold out and severa! hundred people on the stage. The fact that Mr. Hayes is a consummate artist has never been disputed by critics, but his artistry is not obvious. Doubtless many of the people who weep when he sings and beat their palms red afterwards cannot recognize it. But the U. S. is at present preoccupied with the music of the Negro; Tenor Hayes has been swept into popularity on this wave of interest, and by paradox, his fame has made his worth recognized. Could...
...drifting attitude of Mr. Blake toward your recent editorials, may I take issue? Your editorial page and in fact the whole paper has shown more alertness, vigor, and originality than at any time in the past six years. Mr. Blake must be accustomed to rather dull and obvious editorial fare so to condemn intelligent journalism exercising a legitimate right of leadership. Very truly yours, L. B. Young...
...landlady and asks her to make a second at chess. "But I do not play chess", remonstrates the landlady, "I only play checkers!" "That makes no difference", retorts the other, "come let us play." Whereupon they sit down and play a game of chess. The significance of this is obvious. In real life, the "rival stage", a knowledge of chess is necessary before you can play the game. But in the world of illusions, in the life of the theatre you can play chess without knowing the difference between a king and a pawn. To play a game of chess...