Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...continue, however. Before the Deputies had considered even half the bill in detail, it was obvious that an utter impasse had been reached. Despairing, M. Painlevé saw his measure go down by the slender margin of 275 to 278 when a vote was taken on the the much criticized Fifth Article, envisioning a virtual moratorium on the short-term Treasury bonds falling due next month (TIME...
...unpleasantly accurate, it is time to go home much sooner. The Joker is a wordy and obvious melodrama. Mr. Morgan is far too good an actor to play this sort of thing, in which he is one jump ahead of the villain, poverty and cuckoldom...
...that such a course ought to be taught in secondary and high schools and, therefore, has no place at Harvard, is merely to repeat Spark's old argument. Why, then, is it still given? And why does almost the entire Freshman class still take it? The obvious answer is that students do not order their precollege work correctly. But even so, are secondary schools never to assume their proper burden and really prepare boys for college? Certainly they never will so long as colleges consider it their duty to teach all the odds and ends of elementary subjects preparatory schools...
...Abbot Speaks" is an excellent example of the danger of treating inadequately a subject already handled superbly by a great writer. Whatever else it may be, it is not poetry. But to discuss in detail its obvious shortcomings would be unsuitable. One can only regret the momentary lapse in taste that led to its publication. The question of the propriety of its perpetration originally does not concern us; but if it did, most of us can recall worse deeds of our own undergraduate literary days...
Where then is peace, where then is quiet? In the home of culture, in the halls of learning seems the obvious answer. But there the drills and hoists of progress ply their trade. America has growing pains, and they center in her eardrums. If civilization has brought pleasure for some senses, it has brought torture for the hearing. One turns to the pages of history, to the writings of quiet men in quiet times and rests for a moment but only a moment. A typewriter sounds in the next room, a barrel organ in the street, and the book...