Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...huge New York Daily News last week asked itself why it was so popular-and answered itself to its own obvious satisfaction...
Most impressive military formation of the year, Thursday's affair brings together at one time and place the several thousand trainees of Harvard's extensive naval establishment, in obvious contrast to the annual reviews of the peace-time Naval ROTC Unit whose 250 inactive duty students once passed in review before such visitors as ex-Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams...
...confusing such as this can be. R. S. Merriam didn't seem to meet with any universal approval as an umpire,-although he figured out the "break-even" point of every play. Out in the field Messrs. Livesey and Barloon (despite his besmirched trousers) played stellar games notwithstanding obvious myopia...
...Brest-major port protected by permanent forts and an unusually rocky coastline. Possible landing beaches are southward across the bay; the most obvious attack would be from the Lorient area...
...colleagues, Holmes was a strange fish. He gave his opinions briefly, spontaneously (some Justices took six months). When lawyers complained, Holmes roared: "May God twist my tripes if I string out the obvious for the delectation of fools!" As soon as an attorney began to speak, Holmes whipped out his pocket notebook, took notes. Eagerly he would await what he called the point of contact: "the formula-the place where the boy got his finger pinched in the machinery." Sometimes he caught onto it in the first five minutes, would promptly doze...