Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like all theories, Gallup's has its obvious limits. No poll is any better than its interviewers. Though the polltakers' instructions carefully specify the cross-section to be taken, some Gallup pollsters are reluctant to venture into poorer districts; others fill out their ballots by punching doorbells in the daytime, thus missing jobholders...
...sitting down with the Russians and talking things out." They forget that the West tried this for two postwar years, always with the result that Russia broke her promises almost before they were made and gained invaluable strategic positions in the process. Harry Truman last week, for no obvious reason, announced that he was always ready to meet Joe Stalin (in Washington). Newsmen in the U.S. and in Europe speculated that the Kremlin might propose a meeting in, say, Scandinavia. Suppose the Russians did decide to play thus on the world's desperate hopes? From TIME'S Berlin...
Despite his indefinite general attitude, Mather declared that support of Wallace did not represent "the proper appraisal of the obvious debits alongside obvious assets"; "making almost certain victory of the most Republican of Republicans" against "laying the foundations for victory four years from now." He furthermore strongly disapproves of the Wallace stand on ERP, holding that one should "work to influence the details of its potentialities for tremendous progress." But he left open the possibility that he may vote for Wallace later...
...doesn't meet. The D'Oyly Carte Company set the standard at the premiere of each of the works way back in the Nineteenth Century, and it alone holds to the standard. Other companies try to do the operettas every now and then, but at best they are obvious substitutes--the spark is not there...
...France but writes her deft, frothy novels in English. With engaging candor and none of the moodiness of her famed brother, she tells in With Much Love the story of the family's first 21 years in France. Few books of family reminiscences have been written with such obvious joy and communicate so much of it to the reader...