Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This fresh angle raised a flurry. The Arabs snorted: "Entirely unacceptable." A British Colonial Office spokesman blurted: "It is obvious that this proposal is diametrically opposed to the British proposal at U.N. of Arthur Creech Jones." Colonial Secretary Creech Jones himself hustled off to London for a powwow. In the flurry, nearly everybody overlooked the lesson: U.N. could still find no cops...
Said one editorial writer in 1926, "Open hostility glowed warmly on both sides... Undergraduates and older men alike girded their loins for battle. . . Old friendships were cast aside and tradition forgotten. . . The result could be but one, and that the obvious...
...danger of Barnes' proposed bill to freedom of expression in the teaching profession needs no elaboration. Less obvious is the danger that the bill will meet violent, but undefined opposition. In Sunday's New York Times Magazine, Associate Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. suggested that the first constructive step towards combatting witch hunts while preserving security would be to differentiate "between the rights of an American citizen and the rights of a government employe in a security agency." To make the teaching profession seem to bear a vital relationship to government security would be a small task for experienced...
Skinner revealed last night that since the financial deficit became obvious over the weekend, the band has placed the problem before the H.A.A. and will put it up to the Student Council Wednesday evening. The organization seeks only enough H.A.A. money to pay expenses when it is on the road...
Such consistent success was earned by the diligent exercise of a slender but well-muscled comic talent-a gift, said one critic, for being "obviously obvious about the very obvious." His father, a Dutch banker in London, insisted that John read for the law before starting a writing career. John dutifully did, began writing Young Woodley while teaching English law and legal history at the University College of Wales in Aberystwyth...