Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christmas, it is not altogether for lack of trying. Behind the locked door of his Paris studio, 76-year-old Georges Rouault paints Christs as glowing and brittle as stained glass. They are done with devotion (Rouault is an ardent Catholic), but their deliberate crudity is almost as obvious a barrier to appreciation as the lock on his door. When British Sculptor Henry Moore was commissioned to carve a Madonna and Child for a church, he resolved to "meet the subject half way," as he put it, by substituting a limited realism for his usual smooth abstraction. The compromise...
...there was small hope of any quick boost in production, the obvious thing to do was curb the amount of spending money. Ttie way to do this, said Federal Reserve Board Chairman Marriner F. Eccles, was to use a few old methods (keep taxes high, restrict housing and installment credit) and one new one. He wanted Congress to give FRB the power to boost maximum reserve requirements of commercial banks (the amount of deposits not available for loans) from the present 26% to 51%. This was the "mildest way," Eccles insisted, of curbing credit...
...supervised elections are conducted. the men who actually supervised the election were "victims of the system." Final responsibility for permitting conditions under which such a thing could happen must be placed on the attitude of the Council as a whole, which has failed to follow the simplest and most obvious recommendations of its own Committee on class Affairs...
...secret disclosed by the poll were framed and hung over the writing desk of every women about to select gifts for a Harvard undergraduates, it would read: "Don't overlook the obvious...
Every airminded schoolboy has wondered why airliners do not refuel from flying tankers. The advantages (longer range, lighter takeoff, bigger payload) are obvious. Today an airliner labors off the ground carrying fuel for the whole flight, though it will not need most of it for the first thousand miles...