Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Should I ever be seen walking down the: streets in the nude, the reason will be obvious...
Quick to suggest the obvious retort that the Union League Club meeting smelled of money were liberal papers like The Christian Century and Zion's Herald. The latter weekly printed an editorial which cited "forged telegrams" and "whispering campaigns" as "the diabolical methods used by the utility companies in their efforts to forestall legislation affecting them." Last week its editor, Lewis Oliver Hartman, received and printed a letter from Utilitarian Denman...
...team in the Open, the inadequacy of Hurlingham's string of ponies was twice as apparent as it had been in earlier scratch games. The Britons' invariable emphasis on style rather than speed, the tendency to hit from the saddle instead of the stirrups, were as obvious as ever. For the Hurlingham observers, the most encouraging factors of the game were negative ones. Hurlingham was handicapped by the loss of its regular No. 1, Captain Michael P. Ansell, who chipped a bone in his wrist last month. Eric Tyrell-Martin. who showed the effects of a winter...
...Broadcast" lacks the novelty of the last "Big Broadcast." It is obvious, however, that the producers have attempted to make up the shortcoming in big names. It is somewhat disconcerting to the inveterate moviegoer to see such stars as Ruggles and Boland, Amos and Andy, Burns and Allen, Ethel Merman and Jessica Dragonette doing bits...
...from the plate, throw underhand. The bases are 60 ft. apart instead of 90 and runners cannot steal until the ball reaches the catcher. There are ten players on a side. In other respects, the rules of softball are almost identical with those of baseball. The most obvious difference between the games is that softball is much faster. A good softball pitcher goes through several games without allowing a run. No-hit games are common. Batters start swinging as the ball leaves the pitcher's hand. The size of the field is adapted to lighting for night games...