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Word: obvious (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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According the article, Conant determined the future development of the bomb on the night of December 6, 1941, a few hours before the Pearl Harbor attack. "The best men...minds...scarce materials could be spared only for something of supreme importance...the importance of the decision was obvious. It fell to Conant to make...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Post Begins Conant's Biography, Describes Work on Atomic Bomb | 4/21/1949 | See Source »

...What we have to search for," Peró concluded, "is the well-proportioned man." The implication was obvious: let the world take a good look at the well-proportioned Peronista...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: The Well-Proportioned Man | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...grip that communists supposedly had on Lawrence, Massachusetts, without a single fact to back it up. It pictured the mill town threatened by near-revolution in such a hysterical way as to amuse even the least skeptical reader; the thinness of the mixture made the Herald's story an obvious piece of propaganda...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Big Red Scare: I | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

There is one major defect in this album: John Finnegan '47 is not so good an arranger as Leroy Anderson '29. This becomes obvious when the "Serenade for the Blue' is compared with the old Yale medley. Unfortunately, most of the new medleys are Finnegan's, which makes for a uniformity of form, cadence, and orchestration that is unfortunate at the least...

Author: By Charles W. Balley, | Title: The Music Box | 4/14/1949 | See Source »

...that of Olivier and Leigh. "That Hamilton Woman" is supposed to be the love story of Lord Nelson and the wife of a British ambassador in Naples. It is also beautiful acted, staged, and directed; unfortunately the fact that it was written during the Battle of Britain is too obvious whenever politics is mentioned. The script is almost pure propaganda in places. However, beyond these perhaps picayune details, "That Hamilton Woman" is an entertaining movie and an excellent piece of work...

Author: By Arthur R. G. solmssen, | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/12/1949 | See Source »

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