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Word: obvious (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peron is a most prominent man's wife. It is obvious that Mr. Peron knows what TIME could not possibly know about Eva's heart and soul, and that is the reason why he chose her as his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 4, 1947 | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...thus becomes fairly obvious that the situation should be remedied, but there are also reasons for maintaining the status quo. One is that any student walking through an open Wigglesworth Gate would immediately fall into the half-mile-deep pit on the other side. But there is another, far more important reason. The closed gate suddenly brings the hard facts of life and reality to the sheltered Harvard man. Faced with an unequivocal "No," he tries the next passage, and there he sees stark, unyielding rocks, and gets dust, from which he has always been hermetically sealed, in his eyes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Open and Shut | 7/29/1947 | See Source »

...story seems fairly credible. But several scenes, particularly the one in which two patrolmen are so overcome by the beauty of a Christmas Eve gathering that they refrain from reporting the intruders, move the action into the realm of fantasy. By this lapse and by over emphasizing some rather obvious developments, IHOFA lessens its effectiveness. The use of phony emotionalism is unnecessary as the plot is a natural. Don DeFore and Gale Storm provide the young love ingredient. But the real weight of the picture rests with Moore and secondarily with Charlie Ruggles, the unwitting host. Ruggles, under the impression...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 7/29/1947 | See Source »

...Marshall approach" is one obvious way of trying to stave off a situation in which war would be inevitable. Another attempt is the Wedemeyer mission (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) to find out how to help China and Korea stay out of the hands of the Communists. If that mission develops a "Wedemeyer approach" to Asia, it may cost the U.S. a few billions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: WHAT PRICE PEACE? | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...press, would bring hydroelectric plants, irrigation, new ports, housing, highways, airports and all the benefits of modern industrialization to Argentina. The cost: $1,650,000,000. But for several months now Perón's papers have been silent. Last week the reason for the silence became as obvious as the unbuilt dams. Argentina is short of money for the plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Plan's Plight | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

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