Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bank fell through. Merger terms permitted Corn Exchangers either to exchange their stock for National City on a four-fifths for one basis or to receive $360 a share each. When the Market crashed, Corn Exchange stock accompanied it, at one time reaching a low of $160 per share. Obviously Corn Exchangers would gladly take $360 a share for their stock; equally obvious was National City's reluctance to buy up the entire Cora Exchange capitalization at a point far above its market value. Therefore National City stockholders refused to ratify the merger, and plop!?back went National City...
...change in a body which was rapidly becoming entrenched in the traditions of a none too liberal past. It is especially fortunate that the change is contemplated in those examinations that deal with English, chiefly because they are most frequently required. Under the present system there are several rather obvious faults which would warrant careful consideration on the part of this committee...
...advantages of the two solutions are obvious. For the comprehensive examination the student must do independent research, and is held for a knowledge of one particular field. His interest in that work is greatly stimulated. When undergraduates and professors are associated in a like activity their intimacy is inevitable; and this in turn leads to a common intellectual interest and a common place of work. Here may be found an atmosphere where minds may grow, and, "by attrition," to repeat President Lowell's words, "provoke one another." Daily Californian...
...school song to a ditty called "Alma Mammy." There is also a red-headed fellow who says that a preposition is something you ask a girl. That no college on earth was ever like Pelham does not detract from the fun in Sweetie so much as the director's obvious uncertainty whether he was making a satire or a straight story. Typical shot: a football hero with a loose shoe...
...there anything intangible about the man who steered the ship of U. S. prosperity through the storm, who at length felt the helm respond. More than most men, Thomas William Lament can be touched, appraised. In obvious and literal ways, this right hand of John Pierpont Morgan is freely extended among men. A cosmopolite, he knows, understands, and likes the thousands of people of all nations with whom he does business. Because he is patient and urban, he is the Morgan diplomat. In more subtle ways, Mr. Lament can be described as a tangible person. Tell him a joke...