Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year's Freshman squad has been shifted around so that it is hard to say who are the ranking players but it appears obvious that there aren't many there who are going to startle the world...
...must be obvious to the new leaders of the Harvard Student Union that to be seduced once again into a national group that robs them, and tries to commit them to political alliances which can only be unpopular on the Harvard Yard, will serve to reduce rather than increase their support and respect from the general student body. For such a promising start to land on the shoals as it is leaving harbor would be a major set-back for the Harvard Student Union's ambitious program for the current academic year...
...whether Mr. Roosevelt cares to express an opinion on the subject or not, the country is nevertheless on the brink of another business recession which bids fair to be the equal of the 1930 secondary slump. The stockmarket, the most obvious barometer, though not necessarily the best, has been on the down grade for many weeks, and although the break in prices is not yet entirely reflected in the production indices, that is simply because manufacturing companies are still filling orders born of summer optimism. Car loadings are just holding even, and after the unusually large farm crops have been...
...allowing the week that had been estimated would be necessary. His sternness was also apparent in the first skirmish of the trial, when Prosecutor Hammond Edward Chaffetz, 30, who has been with the Department of Justice since graduation from Harvard Law School seven years ago, tried to forestall the obvious plan of the defense to shoulder all blame on the New Deal. Prosecutor Chaffetz asked Judge Stone to forbid the defense to assert that its practices had Government approval unless they could produce letters from President Roosevelt or Secretary of the Interior Ickes to substantiate the assertion...
...this request Colonel William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan, 54, onetime assistant U. S. Attorney General in charge of trust-busting and now head of the defense's 57 attorneys, had an obvious comeback. In hope of getting convictions instead of a mere injunction the Government for the first time in a big case had used its power to conduct a criminal rather than a civil action. "Since they have chosen to institute a criminal case," stormed Wild Bill, "they must be bound by the rules that our Constitution has prescribed in order to protect the defendants when they...