Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...review of The Condemned Playground by Cyril Connolly [TIME, July 29]. The reason Connolly did not include U.S. literature is obvious; U.S. literature, with the sole exception of Joseph Hergesheimer (as far as I know), reflects the Industrial Revolution...
...secretion of gastric juices in the digestive system. Ulcers result from the secretion of abnormally large amounts of gastric acid. The normal stimulus for gastric secretions is eating. What puzzled Dr. Dragstedt was the fact that ulcer patients secrete large amounts between meals, especially at night, without any obvious stimulus...
While there can be little argument with subsidized research, it is obvious that further endowment on the 1945-46 pattern will only give credence to the "research-laboratory" label that is tacked to the name Harvard too frequently. At best, this situation is endowments can cause a tremendously lopsided University, with faculty and student talent naturally funnelling off either into other colleges where their specialties are not given orphan-child treatment. At its worst, a hit-and-miss endowment policy can neglect faculty salaries (which, at certain levels, Harvard can scarcely neglect much longer) and other immediate needs until...
Last spring, however, his obligation to relieve Los Angeles' citizens of more money became too obvious to be ignored-there wasn't a professional crap game west of Reno. Tony raised money from some "investors," bought a 386-ft. Navy mine layer, the Bunker Hill. He had her towed to Long Beach, painted the name Lux (short for Luxury) on her side, began converting her into a gambling ship...
...first time since 1939 the University has granted an organization permission to solicit funds on a door-to-door basis. The circumstances underlying this situation are so obvious that they require little explanation. The case, simply stated, is that students in European universities are starving; students in this country enjoy, comparatively speaking, a superabundance of the necessities of life. Therefore it is only right that we should help those in need...