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Word: obviousness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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General Massacre? Meanwhile Russian, French, Scandinavian and British newspapers reached press-gagged Berlin with reports that it was not Communisms but the Nazis themselves who fired the Berlin Reichstag-for reasons only too obvious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: National Revolution! | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

...most certainly relaxed its hitherto exclusive policy. In view of the increased emphasis being placed on students dining together in the Houses, the position of those denied this privilege has become more and more anomalous. Space, kitchen equipment, and service all being available in the Union, there is no obvious reason, demand warranting, why the present plan should not be made permanent, thus meeting a long standing need with the same spirit in which the present emergency has been countered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOD FOR ALL | 3/7/1933 | See Source »

Perhaps a little less obvious is the failure to include a description of the prevailing intellectual atmosphere of the unit. Not entirely by accident, Lowell House has become largely a center for serious scholastic endeavor. There is an air of profundity hovering over the lamb and mint sauce, an air of correctness about the entertainments. One finds it difficult to fancy the prim and stainless chandeliers of that sunny dining room jangling to the raucous laughter of a "Shoemaker's Holiday." Men of Lowell find their pleasure in musicales and staid comedies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOWELL HOUSE | 3/7/1933 | See Source »

...liberal atmosphere of Harvard College, and which could be changed for the better, it would seem, with only a little minor ventilation of the study system. I refer particularly to English A-1 and the number of studies to be carried per year. The following suggestions, however, seem so obvious that they may have been shelved long...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Minor Ventilation | 3/3/1933 | See Source »

...obvious that on these Senior Fellows depends the whole success of the rather ephemeral Society, for on them rests the burden of selecting the first members and of adjusting all the innumerable details of organization and administration. Naturally they will be bombarded by recommendations from all over the country, and it will be a truly Gargantuan task to choose five or six Junior Fellows out of the mass of material available. The Committee will have to place some reliance on course grades and college records in attempting to pare down the number at the outset, but the greatest care must...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SENIOR FELLOWS | 2/28/1933 | See Source »

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