Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems odd, though, that our instructors would tolerate X, Y statements in discussion settings given the obvious gulf between such statements and the rigorous scholarship demanded of professors and graduate students. Perhaps our instructors reason that the only way to keep undergraduates engaged in dry or challenging material is to entertain our anecdotes and X, Y statements...
According to audience member Kathleen A. Agresta '02, Resnicoff's injury was not obvious from the theater seats...
What the Congo could be has been obvious since British explorer Lieut. Verney Cameron captivated Belgium's King Leopold in 1876 with tales of riches. The soil is fertile. There are giant stretches of tropical wood, and an estimated $58 billion of mineral wealth is in the ground...
...only real objection I can foresee is the obvious one: Students will sneak coffee out of the cafe and soil the books. This problem is easily overcome. Install a checker at the door-if you inspect people's bags and jackets, hardly any food or drink will escape into the stacks. Besides, people are sneaking food and drink into the library as it is. A wet book is not a dead duck, but an undercaffeinated student is a miserable thing...
...Feminist" was always a little too dainty sounding, so call the new consciousness "femaleist." The femaleist premise could be summarized as: Yes, we are different--wanna make something of it? Up till now, feminists have usually been leery of acknowledging gender differences, arguing that all but the most visibly obvious of them are the products of culture, not genes, and could be erased by the appropriate legislation and child-rearing practices. But the differences are real, various and not easy to parse in terms of the Framer's intentions, if any. Women are more likely to be righthanded and less...