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Word: blatantly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact, so prosaic is the appearance of the edifice that, in looks, it has often been compared with a typical. New England shirt factory. In this instance, however, looks and name are deceiving, for within the four walls of that structure are enough "finests" to phase the most blatant, peep show touter. Who would guess, for example, that there are more dead queens residing in that Museum than there are live ones in Europe today...

Author: By Burton VAN Vort, | Title: THE LIVING EXPLORE THE DEAD AT PEABODY | 5/27/1942 | See Source »

...Denver has never had the morning-paper habit, since 1940 the News has managed to up both its daily and Sunday circulation some 5,000. It sells around 44,000 daily now, around 48,000 Sundays. This is a long way from the 158,000 daily circulation of the blatant Denver Post (evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Oldsters in Shorts | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

...same afternoon the Jayvees finished an undefeated season, as did the Freshmen, and in the Junior Varsity race the Crimson thirds placed second, well in front of the Tech and Princeton Jayvees in an exhibition which one humiliated Bengal was heard to term a "blatant display of excess power...

Author: By John C. Bullard, | Title: Lightweight Crew Squad Bolstered by Plentiful Supply of Trained Oarsmen | 3/20/1942 | See Source »

...Many of the ministers seem to play upon the credulity, the sentimentality, the superstitions and the fear of their audiences. Their appeals for money are often blatant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Radio Religion | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

...gain of 264,000 circulation in the last five years?-its undeniable influence on isolationist sentiment in the five Midwest States which it calls "Chicagoland?" The late, great Charles Dana prescribed one sure-fire recipe for circulation: get your paper talked about. Of that art Colonel McCormick, with his blatant methods, is a past master. The Tribune's subtitle ("The World's Greatest Newspaper") is an outstanding example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Battle of Newspapers | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

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