Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...help of Washington's 27-year-old Nesuhi Ertegun, erudite, diminutive son of the late Turkish Ambassador, she founded the Crescent Record Co. Zealot Ertegun is passionately certain that New Orleans jazz is a genuine art form, and America's chief contribution to culture. His most obvious reason for founding the company was to get the Kid back on wax. (Ory's 1921 Sunshine recordings-Ory's Creole Trombone, Society Blues-were probably the first Negro-made records of U.S. jazz...
...taxpayers only 1?: out of every $7 spent by the U.S. Government, held that a small extra cost would pay handsome dividends. But Heller insisted that other changes-e.g., reduction of standing committees-should come along with such items as pensions and salary increases. Said Heller: "It appears obvious that Congress is operating with hand tools in a mechanized...
...York Times: 1) an editorial deploring unnecessary travel; 2) four columns of resort ads, "describing, often in glowing terms, the delights of a midwinter vacation"; 3) "two columns of news about winter resorts indicating that social life is going full blast. . . ." Said the New Republic: "It is obvious that something is wrong...
Budget Director Harold Smith had reckoned that by mid-1946 the U.S. would owe its citizens and institutions $292 billion on Government borrowing. This was nearly $61 billion more than it now owes them, $32 billion more than the law allows. Franklin Roosevelt served the obvious notice that during the year Congress would be asked to raise the U.S. debt limit, make more U.S. borrowing legal...
...front-line correspondents and armchair experts had a Buck Rogers field day. They solemnly guessed: 1) that the balls of fire were radio-controlled (an obvious absurdity, since they could not be synchronized with a plane's movements by remote control); 2) that they were created by "electrical induction of some sort"; 3) that they were attracted to a plane by magnetism...