Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congress shall be chosen. If every person who utilized those provisions of the Constitution by becoming a candidate for Congress were to be subjected to penalties such as loss of employment, public ignominy, refusal of a passport, and similar disabilities, the unsoundness of such a policy would be obvious to all. Yet public opinion is apparently willing to tolerate legislation and practices inflicting those consequences upon persons who similarly utilize another portion of the Constitution. This is as irrational as if a university were to expend great effort and sacrifice in establishing a magnificent library; but then were to expel...
...checking their lines during construction of a Navy drydock in 1941, noticed that the ground had sunk a little. Long Beach sages, only slightly alarmed, suggested various causes. It was an earthquake, maybe, or the result of dredging and filling in the harbor area. Few liked to mention the obvious conclusion: that the sinking of Long Beach was caused by extraction of the oil that was making the city rich...
...night janitor in 1951, the more the pupils and teachers of the Edwin Markham Elementary School in the Portland, Ore. school district began to realize that there was something special about shy, quiet Horace Bixby. Because of the Depression, "Bix" had never finished college. But he had an obvious talent for science and mechanics-and an even more important knack for getting along with children. He brought them birds and fish to study and care for. He built them an incubator, a model cloud chamber...
...Kremlin, and represents a significant, dangerous move away from Russia. While the requested total is extremely large, especially considering the uneasy and changeable state of Poland's politics, any economic tie between Poland and this nation would represent a major break in Russia's satellite rule. There are, moreover, obvious humanitarian reasons...
...really a resort; it is a pleasure city, and one that is completely self-sufficient. Not very many resorts can offer their guests a hockey rink, a zoo, a polo field, a 27 hole golf course, a bar ensconced in a greenhouse, along with all the other obvious facilities. And above all this towers Pike's Peak, and the Rockies with their magnificent scenery...