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Word: obvious (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obvious material for hawk-eyed Franklin P. Adams, oldtime colyumist ("The Conning Tower") of the World, longtime subordinate to Swope. After due thought, Colyumist Adams colyumed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Swope's Smoke | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...eight weeks ahead. Thus on a cool June day the artist must be mentally sweating under a torrid August sun, while in October his characters are busily shoveling snow. Add to this the fact that the strip must be equally acceptable from Maine to Texas and it is obvious that it takes considerably more than faultless execution to make a successful cartoonist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CANDIDATE | 2/21/1929 | See Source »

Aspects. As the trial wore on, the absence of absolute evidence grew obvious. There was a deadlock between the connoisseur, foiled 'by the need to express nebulous impressions in concrete language, and the shrewd lawyer, facetiously tilting and impaling but hampered by lack of the factual material of law. Sir Joseph grew lugubrious, exasperated, weary. Said he: "Last night I did not get a wink of sleep. All night my mind was filled with images of pictures going round and round. How long is this sort of thing going to last, do you think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Duveen on da Vinci | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...Current Events Contest, as described elsewhere in today's CRIMSON, is but the third that has taken place since the inception of the plan, and already it has reached the dignity of an institution. The advantages of any scheme that helps develop an intelligent reading public are apparent. Equally obvious is the desirability of encouraging an interest in affairs of the day among a class that will supply many of the future leaders of the nation, and these two factors help explain the interest aroused by the contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEWS REQUIREMENT | 2/15/1929 | See Source »

...scenario with an average plot is aided very little by the directing. It is very noticeable that certain of the casting was done with an eye to the person's voice with the result that in certain minor roles an inexperience is shown which was not so obvious in the declasse pantomime pictures...

Author: By B. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

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