Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...obvious that all children are not imbued with the same desire to learn, nor are they equipped with equally potential learning capacities. Would it not be feasible to alter the radius of the learning circle by attempting to inject in all of them the existent truths of life, rather than forcing facts . . . upon them...
...more than $1 billion a year was going to be spent by an agency that was in some respects a law unto itself. Congressmen were baffled by a science too abstruse for them to comprehend. They were baffled by the need for national security on the one hand, the obvious necessity for un-hobbled scientific inquiry on the other. Beyond everything else, they were baffled by the problem of fitting absolute Government control of atomic power into the framework of the cherished U.S. system of free enterprise...
Referring to the three Western powers' obvious solidarity, Vishinsky cracked back: "It depends three times as much on you as it does...
...quite obvious that Mr. Friedrich has failed to distinguish between a movie which arouses prejudice, and one which, through method of interpretation, offends the arbitrarily imposed moral standards demanded of all pictures by one religion, but in no way attacks or stirs up hatred against this group. To indiscriminately lump the two into one category is both unwarranted and distinctly dangerous. There is a fundamental difference between propagation of hate and a disagreement over moral standards...
...years at the University of California School of Jurisprudence, Professor Alexander Marsden Kidd has had no trouble living up to his obvious nickname. In all the university's vast (3,250 members) faculty, no teacher is so fierce in pursuit of his prize (knowledge) or so furious in the treatment of his enemy (the lazy student) as the law school's "Captain Kidd...