Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high brows. . . . We believe in athletics but we are not interested in ... a few giants . . . We believe in college life, as it is called . . . but we are not interested if this side of college produces only sleek, well-fed bipeds of the genus homo (by courtesy) sapiens, whose most obvious contribution, to a waiting and anxious world is their ability to serve as models of the youth so familiar with ready-made clothing advertisements...
...defence the Harvard flavor is exceedingly obvious although the formations of the backfield are here again changed. The line is trying to get across the line of scrimmage as before in order to bottle up the offensive team. The ends, if anything, go deeper than before and against Rensselaer they were very effective. On the whole the line was playing too high but that is a usual criticism in the early season. All told the visitors gained very little ground except for their successful forward passes. Our forward pass defence seemed to be our weakest point...
...take exception to any criticisms published in the "Guide" or who desire to criticize courses not included in that summary, may submit their signed letters. Such of them as seem well considered and worthy of publication will be printed, if space allows, and the signatures will be withheld for obvious reasons...
...course, may be different at Union College; but elsewhere it is a pretty safe guess that the average run of legs and heads function as well as in the pre-Colgate era. If the two extremities of a student's anatomy be made the subject of presidential lecturing, the obvious criticism is not that students are being reduced to torsos, but that they run the danger of becoming either all heads or all legs...
...With regard to the question of Russian debts, loans and credits, it is, generally speaking, a matter of time. The Russians repudiated their debts and it is obvious that no new credits will be forthcoming until the world is convinced that the Soviet Government won't repudiate them also . . . I can say that . . . the Soviet Government will find it hard to get any fair-sized loan today...