Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...result there are large taxes to be paid, most of which fall due in the calendar year 1920. But this year has been vastly different from the last; with the acknowledged diminishing of trade have also come the decline of inventory values, receipts and profits. It is obvious that the earnings of this year have been too scanty to pay for the taxes accrued by the previous year's bounty...
There are times when Mr. Leacock's efforts to be funny fall a trifle flat, when his satire or exaggeration are too obvious to "get across." Thus "John and I," "The Kidnapped Plumber" (except for a few brilliant flashes) and "Buggam Grange" seem somewhat forced. "The Split in the Cabinet" on the other hand is more successful in its treatment of the English political novel...
...whom he deprived of the opportunity of rendering their city a long-cherished service have left in their work, here and in other cities, many eloquent witnesses to their rectitude and genius. They have no need of sorry vindication from the spectacle of the present museum. To point the obvious moral, considerations of nepotism, social ambition and sordid jealousy prevailed over the clear reasoning of enthusiasm for the arts and devotion to the commonwealth, with the inevitable result. J. B. WHEELWRIGHT '20. December...
Careful examination of the ballots could not locate where the error lay; it was obvious that gross carelessness had prevailed in counting votes for no consistent error could be located...
...complete success of the Endowment Fund can only be attained by a hundred per cent, effort--an effort that includes every Harvard man. It is obvious that responsibility for the success of this drive rests as much with the undergraduates as with the alumni. The latter are at present engaged in a second effort to put the Fund over; many are doubling their subscriptions. On the other hand, this is the first opportunity the undergraduates have had to help shoulder this responsibility. We urge that every man in the College carefully consider this matter and do his part to make...