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Word: obvious (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many assault battalions that somebody had called him "often a bride but never a bridesmaid," but now it was obvious that he would never lead another. Said he: "I hate like hell for this to happen so early. But I'll be all right. I'll see you back on States-side and we'll throw a whiz-dinger." Said the brigadier general: "No man in the shape he's in has a right to look so well and talk so normally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BEACHHEAD IN THE MARIANAS | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

...Allies chose to attack in the most obvious area. They may and are still likely to attack elsewhere. One of these assaults may yet turn out to be the knock-out punch, but the size of the first attack this week in Normandy-on a front more than 100 miles long, from Cherbourg to Le Havre-gave the Germans good reason to believe that they had already seen the beginning of the Allies' main effort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Invasion: Time, Place and Beginning: Jun. 12, 1944 | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

These facts, says the official Selective Service Bulletin, "emphasize the importance to the nation as a whole of insuring that every American citizen has opportunity for a reasonable minimum of education." They also emphasize the fact that the Army took a long time to find an obvious solution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: 3 Rs for I -As | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

...Memorial Hall prepares to open its massive portals once more to swarms of exam-crammers, to be filled by hundreds of students who have stayed up all night in order to write coherent "it is therefore clearly obvious that's" in blue books, attention turns to the ungainly structure on the hallowed ground of "The Delta," predecessor of Soldiers Field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Carrie Nation Cursed Vice At Blue-Book Sweat-Shop | 6/9/1944 | See Source »

Gamma globulin is a blood protein. The solution the Army & Navy use is made from donations to the Red Cross blood bank. In tests it has prevented attacks of measles entirely or made them mild. One obvious use for gamma globulin: to prevent measles in children under two, for whom the disease is very dangerous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blood v. Measles | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

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