Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...haven't pounced on a bishop for a long time," wrote Columnist Gubbins. "For many years they have kept rather quiet. . . . But even if bishops . . . are not now saying the delightfully foolish things they used to say, they can always .be relied on to state the obvious at obviously the right time...
...blame a man for stating the obvious, however dull it may be. But . . . has [the Bishop] never observed, or even heard, that after an exhausting effort men and nations are inclined to be irritable and critical and also inclined to absenteeism . . . except, perhaps, bishops, who are not as other...
Even at the start, Ricardo was a better sort of man than most of his fellow colonists. To these rough, tough Spaniards, many of whom had fought as conquistadors, brutal subjugation of the Indians seemed the obvious and only way to solve the vast problems of the huge, semitropical land. Pious Emperor Charles V, in faraway Spain, tried to end the feudal system that made the Indians worse than slaves (no one was responsible for their care). He wanted the Indians to be given patient, Christian, religious instruction. Planters and priests alike flatly defied the royal edict. When the Emperor...
...number of unfilled applications for housing for married students passed the 1,100 mark. Officials of the University Housing Authority at Straus Hall estimate that by June the figure will rise to 2,500 and hit a peak of 3,000 in September. The gravity of the problem is obvious; these statistics mean that close to half of the married veterans at the University will be forced into quarters which cannot be considered adequate, and their ability to study efficiently must suffer as a result. At the same time, all expectations that the housing squeeze would straighten itself out with...
...rise in the price of houses and land, said NHA, is out of line with the 30% advance in the cost of living. Obvious reasons, according to NHA, are: 1) the housing shortage, 2) lack of price controls on real estate. NHA's unoriginal remedy: new houses "at prices which the large number of home-seekers can afford...