Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other barbershops, in factories, on farms, in the very best clubs; on street corners and in homes, accompanied always by the radio, whose doom-voiced newscasters now had only an endless procession of good news to read. For the U.S. people, rightly or wrongly, but reading what seemed like obvious signs, were convinced that the end of the war in Europe is but a matter of months. They knew it was tough; they were not lying down on their jobs; their own sons were "out there" fighting, and perhaps dying, but as Americans they figured it this...
...obvious political fact emerged from the sweltering heat and torpor of the Republican Convention in Chicago last week...
...soon found that he was not to get an equal chance for promotion. It was not Army policy, for obvious if strictly utilitarian reasons, to put Negro officers in command of whites. The Army has commissioned only some 5,000 Negro officers. It had the justification it sought, in the Negro's lack of pre-war military training and his lower educational level...
...addition to the obvious tax advantages, the pension plans provided another answer to a pressing corporation problem: how can corporations keep top talent from straying? The practice of granting stock options as a form of incentive pay (TIME, June 5) had been one answer. Pension plans are a far more popular...
Despite the success of Blossom Time (Franz Schubert) and The Great Waltz (Johann Strauss) the rather obvious idea of building an operetta around the life of Norwegian Composer Edvard Hagerup Grieg apparently occurred to nobody until a year ago. Then it suddenly burgeoned in the brain of Edwin Lester, director of the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera Association. He proceeded to turn out one of the most lavish and expensive ($110,000) productions the Association has ever staged. Song of Norway opened in Los Angeles last fortnight and by last week, it was looking like...