Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...answer is not as evident as it may seem. It is a fact that until two years ago, the language departments at Harvard had allowed themselves to stagnate simply because, as Edward Geary, coordinator of Languages puts it, "no one had ever taken the trouble before." But besides this obvious answer, there is one other somewhat nebulous reason for the college's emphasis on old systems. Harvard's approach to language teaching has always been on the "literary" level. That is to say, when a professor was teaching a class how to speak French, he was really teaching his students...
...feeling of restrained emotion pervades each paragraph; the prose is unpoetical in any obvious sense--you can't scan it--but is yet extremely rich, especially in its combinations of sight and touch. Tension mounts to find release in some sensation such as the feel of soft fabric after a description of a memory exercise...
...show as originally written was just another pastiche of obvious jokes, carefully planted "ad libs" and situations more ridiculous than riotous. Then Writer Sherwood Schwartz had a radical notion: drop the dialogue entirely. Comedian Red Skelton, who has hankered for years to work in pantomime, leaped at the idea...
Both surgeons were a bit late, Huggins charges, and neither took the time to identify the draped figure on his operating table as his own patient. What especially outrages Huggins is that although he insists it was obvious that he had no hernia, Surgeon Graves cut into his abdomen to correct one, and although he had no testicular disease, his left testicle was removed...
...studies, already have in hand a report on the operational aspects of a merger. It was Delaware & Hudson President William White and fellow railroaders who called executives of the seven roads together at Cleveland to discuss what steps to take if the Central-Pennsy merger goes through. The most obvious: meet merger with merger...