Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From all the cautious sidestepping it was obvious that none of the potential candidates was anywhere near as determined as old General Sherman. It was even more obvious that none of them would agree with another, less well-known Shermanism: "If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank...
...would inherit from '45's championship team and this year's successful season. If the popularity built up by last year's performances, which took Harvard to the semi-finals at Madison Square Garden, was to be maintained without frustrating too many fans, transfer to the Garden was an obvious necessity...
...welcome this important significant departure from precedent in electing a layman as president of the Federal Council as a recognition ... of the obvious fact that the men and women of the congregations, the blessed company of all faithful people, make the Christian church. Its weakness is their weakness and its strength is their strength.... The world cries for the effective and universal Christian ministry of all believers...
...quality of the men who wore the crosses, nor was it solely the amount of money spent in an organized publicity campaign. . . . The Protestant chaplain received less recognition than the Catholic because of the radically different resources with which he worked. The disparity was only more obvious in the service, where the contrasting disciplines were juxtaposed in trying conditions, than it is in civilian life, where we pursue our independent ways...
...This attitude," claimed Fairbank, "is most obvious in the case of militaryminded Americans who sincerely belive that we should support any regime aborad which will oppose Russia. We appear in China to be not only selfish and stupid, but dishonest as well...