Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Republican Congressmen were pleased with the week's work. With obvious enthusiasm, the House passed and sent to Harry Truman the presidential succession measure which put the Speaker of the House next in line for the nation's highest office. Speaker Joe Martin, now just one heartbeat from the White House, said that he hoped President Truman would continue to enjoy "the best of health...
...accept their present condition as natural and bearable. But it is, not, and the dull shock of tired nerves is beginning to spread, like battle fatigue after the excitement of combat wears off. The surface annoyances of life are so great, the bareness of the next few years so obvious, that one is amazed at the basic popularity of the government. It continues to be supported, and this support by a people who are heartily sick of almost every measure before it is passed speaks well for the admirably mature and long-sighted attitude of the British people toward politics...
...meter distance is blandly called the "Olympic distance" and therein lies the motive for extraneous, post-season speculation. The fasts are obvious; there is a 2,000 meter crew race in the Olympics; a competitive nation by nature, the United States would like to win it; the United States will send its best sprint-crew...
Perhaps less obvious is the fact that the Olympic games will not be held until next summer. Between last June 28, when the Crimson champions assembled in the same boat for the last time as a unit, and the spring of 1948 when the U. S. representative is chosen, a lot of water--pardon the expression--will pass under the Larz Anderson Bridge. And the shell-load Coach Tom Bolles will finally call his "number one beat" for competition as the Varsity next spring will have unfamiliar figures in at least three slides--stroke, four, and two--as well...
...Reviewing all the sources of payments now in sight, it is obvious that they will not support the present level of exports from the U.S. for any considerable period of time." In short, the part which the bank could play in world reconstruction-or in rebuilding world trade-was shockingly small...