Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...established temporary headquarters. When they finally reached Figueras, however, the fleeing Government was already gone and General Franco's columns were only a few miles behind. Moreover, the roads into France were too crowded with refugees for fast driving. Some of the trucks broke down; it soon became obvious that they could not all reach the border...
...people have sufficient inherent artistic talent to produce it. To be sure there have been the cowboy songs of the West, and the ballads of the Kentucky mountains, but there has been nothing which the public could seize as its own, as a part of its everyday life. The obvious answer for the dearth of folk art in America is of course that the country is too large for a single folk lore that is all-inclusive; and also that the average American person is too mechanical and too wrapped up in industry to have the mind necessary for this...
...reason for the Ulenian gloom is quite obvious. With Bossie out, so vanishes a certain backstroke first; without Waldron, the medley and 200 breastroke are considerably weakened, while Stowell and White were sure point winners in their respective events. However, Craig Moore has been swimming almost as well as the No. 1 Columbia backstroker, Tom Finnerty, and 1:45 might win the event for Craig...
Wild attempted in his talk to appraise the fundamentals of democracy which makes it different from the totalitarian states, and after finding the obvious definitions of majority rule and protected minority rights inadequate, reached three conclusions. First be listed the supremacy of reason ever brute force, second the importance of the individual mind as opposed to the mass mind, third the recognition of a code of reasoned justices...
...Easterners, of whom the President is the obvious leader, are equally convinced that the United States cannot remain isolated from the rest of the world, no matter how much it wants to. It is felt in the East that such a condition as the West would have is totally impossible,--the desire for what has not existed since the last century. The President feels that, whatever is sacrificed by mixing in world affairs, American interests are served only when such a plan is vigorously undertaken. Here is where the Easterners are sure thus they have a much more far-sighted...