Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...personal actions of officers have been the most obvious cause of resentment by the E.M. ... If an officer becomes particularly odious, his superiors merely transfer him. ... Punishment of officers is considered oldfashioned...
...Secularism has been growing much faster in American culture than Protestantism. There are many factors which explain this growth. . . . The most obvious ones . . . are: 1) our secularized system of education; 2) our preoccupation with science; and 3) our organized and commercialized entertainment. . . . They represent vast concentrations of social preoccupation against whose tough grain Protestantism in our time has to make...
...modern writers, working usually in muted tones, off-colors, remotely gross or secret moods. At her best she is delicate, witty, adroit, a genuine craftsman in the sense that Virginia Woolf was a genuine craftsman. At worst she is simply an unsuccessful craftsman-wasting her skill on an obvious pattern, drawing her lines so fine that a reader is not sure what she is trying to show...
...Obviously though it was perhaps not obvious to FDR '04, a paper can editorialize by varying its emphasis, by playing some stories big and burying others. To come to a case in point-one of a series of causes celebres...
...obvious way to use this water would be to divert it above sea level, north of Lake Tiberias. But this would sacrifice the power which the water would generate if allowed to fall into the deep Jordan rift. Besides, the Dead Sea, cut off from its water supply, would shrink or dry up; Palestine's planners do not want that. They proposed to solve the problem by an engineering stunt impossible anywhere else in the world...