Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hand at abstract art, but only once. "I was told to paint an abstraction," says he, "and I did it, in school, where all abstractions belong. But at the Pennsylvania Academy where I studied I tried to resist the tendency of the average art student to like the obvious -the obvious being Picasso and Matisse...
...Berlin Dilemma. The most obvious, and the most important political fact facing Konrad Adenauer's government is that it governs only two-thirds of Germany. Simply by holding the other third, the Russians can constantly dangle the prize of unity before West Germany's eyes. The focus of this continuing battle for Germany's allegiance is Berlin. In the divided city's Eastern sector, the Russians have set up the capital of their puppet state; to all Germans, they proclaim Berlin once more the capital of the Reich. But the city's Western sector feels...
...favor of greatly increasing public power is the undeniable argument that publicly-produced electricity is cheaper. The social benefits of more electricity and cheap electricity are obvious...
...inference was so obvious that Dr. Diamond and his colleagues have not dared to use a man's blood since. Of 45 later cases given the blood of female donors, only one was lost, and that child was almost dead at birth. Other children's hospitals have switched to female donors for this type of exchange transfusion and are building up higher columns of hopeful figures. Dr. Diamond, though he still has no idea what the protective substance in a woman's blood may be, is looking for ways to use it in other children...
...think it is obvious that questions like these could be asked endlessly. The point is that the major part of the answer is already apparent. Harvard does not and cannot train the "whole man." It can only try to channel the into pursuits that will benefit them while they are here and after they graduate; but nothing can alter the fact that Harvard has little or nothing to do with the formation of character which so greatly colors the life of any student before he comes to Cambridge. This means that no person or persons can accurately gauge the effect...