Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They say that you can tell a Harvard man a mile away, and what's more this is supposed to hold true even when everyone else in the area is also wearing civilian clothes. It will be just that much more obvious tomorrow afternoon, for any student who makes the trip to West Point will find himself surrounded by 2,496 of the fittest, proudest, and most highly disciplined young men in the world...
Valpey and his aides were still in the process of sifting their information on Cornell yesterday, so no obvious changes were visible. The movies of Saturday's game here plus the reports of scouts Ben McCabe and Henry Lamar, who watched Cornell down Navy and N.Y.U., will form the basis for the week's work...
Stretch Mazzone, who earned his nickname at Everett High for the obvious reason, stands six-four in his bare feet, and tips the scales at an even...
...Pirates. "What sort of people are they," asks the Times, "the oldest of the Old Powers, the youngest-indeed the unborn-of the Newest Powers, starting to challenge Fate again?" There are, it believes, "one or two obvious facts" about themselves which the British tend to ignore: "their ruthlessness, for example. The English in America exterminated one race, the Red Indians, almost completely, and imported another race, the Negroes, as slaves, on whom they inflicted unspeakable brutalities. The English in Australia carried extermination even further ... a good deal of it by the simple use of arsenic, though there were other...
...rubber bands still intact. Another time, a temporarily well-to-do businessman suddenly decided to "invest" his savings of $80,000 in one glorious day at the races. Two special agents who spotted the man peeling off thousand-dollar bills at a pari-mutuel window put a purposely obvious "tail" on him, so that every footpad within miles would keep hands off. The businessman got home safely-but broke...