Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Without assigning obvious credit to AAA, Federal Land Bank officials in Omaha last week reported farm land prices in Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming up as much as 33% from last year. More than 50% of buyers are bona fide settlers. A farm near Omaha lately sold for $155 per acre, a half-section in Sac County, Iowa for $135 per acre. A northern Iowan reported an offer of $110 per acre for land he lately bought...
...recommendation made after secret hearings on the grounds that the Countess had 1) misrepresented her social position, wealth, upbringing; 2) been bought off in two previous engagements; 3) married Socialite Ryan intending shortly to dissolve the marriage, obtain a settlement enabling her to return to a previous love. With obvious reference to the onetime Barbara Hutton, Justice Salvatore A. Cotillo declared...
...Forest Hills in 1928 and 1931?became a matter of routine. While Helen Wills Moody was feted in London and Paris, Helen Jacobs was mentioned in the newspapers as the unfortunate girl whom Mrs. Moody regularly beat. The pressure of this situation was so obvious that the newspapers invented a personal feud between the two young women, a feud which could never have existed off the courts since tennis was the only true and ultimate expression of it. As years went by, Helen Jacobs' game improved and Mrs. Moody's once or twice showed signs of weakening. Finally...
...Power of Trinity, who is racially more of a Jew than a Negro, announced last week that his predominantly Negro people are "ready to fight" if attacked. To British correspondents he loudly protested that Belgium, France, Czechoslovakia and Denmark now refuse to sell Ethiopia arms at any price, in obvious collusion with Benito Mussolini. "I shall march to battle with my archbishop carrying the Ark of the Covenant before me!" cried Power of Trinity. "I shall lead my troops in person onto the battlefield and I do not expect to meet there Premier Mussolini...
...been proposed that all these collections be gathered under the same roof in a new building similar in scope to that of the Biological Laboratories. There are obvious objections, however, due to the physical operations involved. The Arnold Arboretum is entirely too complicated to move to Cambridge and the work of the Botanical Gardens in Cambridge which is used principally to supply specimens for classes can best be carried on near to the main part of the College...