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Word: obviously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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First Turn. Capot, stung by a slash from Jockey Ted Atkinson's whip, gave everything he had from the break. The strategy was obvious.: stay with Coaltown, and make him give up. Atkinson kept shaking the reins and yelling at his mount. Alongside him, Jockey Steve Brooks did his best to pump a little extra speed from Coaltown. Like a runaway team, the two horses thundered past the grandstand and into the first turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Horse of the Year | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Incorrigible Punster Marx often uses the double play on words-no matter how obvious it is-to make his misanthropic points ("I used to think a dowry was where you got milk-until I got married. I got milked plenty then"). He can affect poor hearing if it will make a gag go: once he pretended to think a woman described herself as a "monster" instead of a "spinster" ("Oh well," he said, winding up the whole discussion, "there isn't a great deal of difference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: What Comes Naturally | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

There are some obvious factual flaws in the above dispatch. For one thing, Earl Blaik stated after the Harvard-Army game that Stephenson had appeared in but four plays against Michigan. For another, Professor Hobbs' Harvard correspondent apparently thinks Noonan and Roche are the same individual...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 11/2/1949 | See Source »

Says the boss, who takes on jobs for as little as $500 or as much as $200,000: "If you want me to do a big thing like a tractor-there are so many obvious things you could do to make it better-looking that I would take it for very little. But if you want me to redesign a sewing needle, I'd charge $100,000. After all, how can you improve a needle? It's like the perfect functional shape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Up from the Egg | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...power to ban pictures because the subjects are not presented with truth and sincerity, there will be very few Hollywood productions indeed which could ever be shown. [If] censorship on this ground should be limited to documentary subjects, then the attempted restrictions on free speech become all the more obvious ... If the board has power to censor for inaccuracies and hypocrisies, there is no reason why such a board could not censor every book, every newspaper, every speech in the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Moral Breach | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

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