Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This did not have any bearing on the regular "narcotic abolition" program instituted by Dictator Chiang some years ago and pursued with varying vigor. In the main and in principle, Chinese police pick up obvious addicts, throw them into "hospitals" which resemble jails. There they are given shots of drugs in gradually decreasing doses and when these have tapered off to zero the patient is forcibly tattooed with a mark saying he has been "cured." If a Chinese thus tattooed is again picked up for drug indulgence by the police, they have the privilege of executing him without further...
...speed with which his lieutenants moved in the automobile industry. He was "going after" the big bad boys in the steel industry, he announced some months ago. But now he has agily leaped the automobile bandwagon and seized the reins. And yesterday came a statement whose inspiration is obvious, one bristling with demands all the way from a thirty-hour week to union representation...
Some weeks ago after a batch of crossbred worms from France had begun to spin, the cocoons appeared in three different colors-white, golden yellow, near-beige. It was obvious to Lady Hart Dyke that mismating had occurred. With British doggedness she set out to trace the ancestry of the worms, to determine whether the production of the three colors could be continued and controlled along established genetic lines...
...dailies beside the Hearstpapers ran "Today." As editor of the Hearst tabloid New York Daily Mirror, Mr. Brisbane turned out eight columns of special editorials a week. And every week in the Sunday Hearstpapers, Pundit Brisbane furnished the text for an illustrated page which dramatized some tremendous, if obvious, thought, or outlined the contents of a classic biography or history...
This program, slightly toned down, Chase & Sanborn brought to its listeners over a coast-to-coast network, with commercial plugs by breathless Graham McNamee. An obvious "natural" for the mass audience, the Good Will Court was given approval by a parade of politicians led by New York's Governor Lehman and New Jersey's Governor Hoffman. The lower court judges and retired magistrates who served received $250 each, "for charity." An endless stream of stammering unfortunates appeared to feed its microphones. Not too sure they liked the idea, but reluctant to cross a good client, National Broadcasting...