Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these conjectures are, it must be admitted, colored by the traditional skepticism which has grown up among CRIMSON boards concerning the not always straightfaced deeds of the 'Poon. Let us hope that the more obvious jibes which this move could engender will not be thrown at the Lampoon--for it has shown that whatever reverence for antiquity antiquity in humor, it has the ability to adapt to at in humor, it has the ability to adapt to at least the most obvious trends of the community...
...forces in the public mind. It is his mistake to have made his objections under the aegis of such a false front as the Americans for Intellectual Freedom. This group, hastily and temporarily organized, scheduled its "counter-rally" on the same evening as the climax of the Conference--an obvious and ineffective way of hitting the Conference...
...some time be encountered ... If we look ahead five or ten years we must consider the possibility of encountering atomic blast. This possibility may for some places be so small that it can be neglected. We should make every effort to add atomic facts of life-subtle and obvious, pleasant and unpleasant-to our folklore. [But] an attempt to provide complete (necessarily underground) protection against atomic attack at close range would cost so much, and would interfere so greatly with what we have come to regard as normal living, that it is unacceptable. The only alternative is to accept...
...obvious to Historian Max Beloff, who teaches modern history at Oxford, that U.S. education was ahead on one count: more people, were getting to college than ever before. Could postwar Britain, which talked of doing the same, learn anything from U.S. experience...
...much concern with making education "easy" and with teaching only "interesting" subjects. Thus "the years of life when memory is at its most active . . . are largely wasted, and a great deal of what could profitably be done at school is left to be done in college . . . One obvious example of this is in languages ... Modern languages in America are in danger of following the dead languages into total neglect...