Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Remember that false U.P. flash on Japan's surrender? An I.N.S. man here told me it was obvious that that flash was a phony. For example, the flash bore a number, and flashes never bear numbers. And worst of all, the phrasing of the flash was all wrong. The message was a complete sentence. . . . That is not flash language...
...unnecessary. He resolved to spend his life hunting for a cureall. In 1910 he saw Halley's comet through a homemade telescope and decided that human ailments are caused by static. He had quit school after the fourth grade and thus had no scientific prejudices. It was obvious to him that cosmic rays would clean static out of the human system and thus end all ills...
...last night of this unique academic process Miss America of 1945 was crowned by Miss America of 1944, a typist named Venus Ramey, who seemed more the physical than the intellectual type. It was obvious that the winner had deserved her victory. She had been cool and ladylike throughout and had played Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor without a bobble. She also looked good in a bathing suit...
...President Lázaro Cárdenas last week announced his intention of resigning as Minister of National Defense. He said that after leaving office, he intended to return to his farm. The press made the obvious comparisons with Rome's Cincinnatus...
...delegation, headed by Harvard's Astronomer Harlow Shapley and General Electric's Nobelman Irving Langmuir, found much of Russia's scientific equipment destroyed by war. Though the Russians and the visiting scientists politely avoided prying into each other's war research, it was obvious that the Russians had been in no position to match the vast U.S. work on the atomic bomb. Yet Physicist Langmuir thought that in less than ten years the U.S.S.R. would certainly be able to carry out a "Manhattan Project...