Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Houses will not be completed until summer. This extra time will undoubtedly make such an alteration in the plans for the Houses possible if it is found that the squash courts can not be kept in the new gymnasium. This change would even have many obvious advantages, which would be especially great if the courts were sufficiently numerous to accommodate a large percentage of the residents of these Houses...
Touching on somewhat the same ground as that tread by Philip Barry in "Paris Bound" the author of "Young Love" has produced a highly diverting comedy. With but four characters to interpret him, he has built a setting of very obvious contrast. Two young people engaged to be married are set off against a young married couple. And as the faith of the youngsters in the everlasting bliss and contentment of the marital state resolves itself into a gaping doubt, Mr. Raphaelson lightly expounds his thesis...
...feature article in this number is a peevish and patently injudicious attack on Professor Lowes, and it isn't as though the aggrieved author confined himself to the existing and obvious defects in the courses conducted by him: he is personal to the point of impertinence, sarcastic far beyond the limits of taste. That the examinations in English 72 and 32 are primarily challenges to the omniscient powers of that admirable institution, the Widow's, anybody, most of all Professor Lowes himself, will admit. That this state of things is comic and fantastic, as well as probably futile, Septimus Cromarty...
...acting that she is scarcely to be blamed for reviving a play from her past instead of trying to find and create something new. And, everything considered, this oldtime vehicle is as good as any to bring a very fine actress back to New York. It is obvious and it is awkward but it is also amusing, even after 18 years. The story is that of the daughter of a patent-medicine faker, who attempts to scale the social heights. She is particularly eager to bring about the marriage of her sister to wealth and position but is unable...
...railmakers and cartel members. U. S. industry on the whole has been somewhat wary about joining cartels, fearing prosecution under anti-trust laws. But the government is much more broad-minded concerning what U. S. industry may do abroad than concerning what it may do at home and one obvious method of meeting cartel competition is to become a cartel member...