Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...answer is obvious. Harvard should begin without delay to break the ground and to set about planning for the day when, with this scheme under way, she will be able to render a very real service to both the city and to the commonwealth of Massachusetts...
Whatever the results as they now concern a curious and primarily entertainment-seeking audience, the Club deserves a word of commendation for its recapture of a tradition that seems, in spite of the obvious hazards, at once a duty and a privilege...
...temerity or ability to do so. Thick skins cannot be pierced with toothpicks and up to the present only the very tiniest and bluntest splinters have been used. Now that Ohio Republicans have substituted a battering ram we can hope that Mr. Hoover will gracefully accept the increasingly obvious fact that many Republicans would not choose him as their leader...
About that time J. Reginald Burlingame, or Reggie, as I called him after a few minutes, staggered in. He is the son of C Worthington Burlingame, who owns practically half of Chicago and Denver, you know. It was obvious that Reggie had been drinking...
Even with the best of intentions, President Roosevelt is in no position to go far on the road to neutrality. He can only list materials of an obvious military character, such as machine guns and poison gases, while knowing as well as any one-else that oil, scarp iron, and cotton are equally necessary to a country at war and must be withheld for the sake of true neutrality. All the pleading in the world will bore American businessmen as long as they are legally permitted to sell oil to the belligerents...