Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Retort Cynical. But as soon as Coffee took the stand it was obvious that he had all the answers ready...
...hearing went on it became even more obvious that it could accomplish nothing, in any practical sense. The statute of limitations had run: even if a crime had been committed nobody involved could be indicted. When the Congressman had been well mussed Mead called a halt...
...group which was aged 10 to 14 in 1900 somehow grew instead of shrinking. When deaths and emigrations were totaled and deducted, the group mysteriously gained 170,000 in population. Other studies showed that every year some 20,000 Negroes unaccountably disappeared from the census statistics. The obvious explanation: the Negroes had become native "whites...
Despite a record of sincere endeavor, it is obvious there are grave weaknesses in this system of rule by flat. A workable solution must be created to take the place of this phantom-government. It is part of the job of the men selected by the House meetings this week to draw up a constitution that will embody enough popular control to bring the Student Council out of the 19th century. And the first essential of this control lies in ratification of the constitution by the entire student body, lest future Student Councils find themselves in the unenviable position...
...findings indicate that most shopkeepers depend for their livelihood on their good standing with their customers and that they cannot force down wholesale and producer prices without support from customers in the form of an obvious intention not to pay higher prices...