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Word: obviousness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...election of Senior officers is the most important in Harvard, it is also the most democratic. No more righteous way of honoring Seniors seems possible. The Student Council selects the obvious candidates, and petitions signed by only twenty-five names round out their list. Unlike the Freshman farces, Senior elections guarantee, if the Class cooperates by voting intelligently, that the right men will be Marshals, Chorister, Odist, Treasurer, Orator, and Poet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELECTING THE ELECT | 3/1/1938 | See Source »

...theme is good, the plot bad. The theme is that of the employe who eats, sleeps and is married to his job. The plot is the all too obvious one about the engineer whose eyesight fails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New & Old Plays in Manhattan | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...TIME for Jan. 31 you say the Leviathan has started on her 301st voyage. Sloppy work, fellows. I saw the same computation in newspaper dispatches, but I thought TIME was alert enough not to fall for such an obvious example of muddleheaded mathematics. The Leviathan was built in Germany, wasn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 21, 1938 | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

Once Eamon de Valera openly raised in London the issue of whether Northern Ireland should be merged with his Eire (TIME, Jan. 31), it was obvious that Prime Minister Viscount Craigavon of Northern Ireland could win an election on that issue without half trying. He promptly called an election, campaigned with the slogan "Don't Be Eirated!" and won last week, increasing his Parliamentary following to 80%. Viscount Craigavon has already been Prime Minister for 17 consecutive years, is now safely in for five more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: Don't Be Eirated! | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...motive for introducing murals and sculpture into subway stations is an obvious one: the wish to combat an atmosphere which is always lugubrious and occasionally sinister. . . . Manufacturers of breakfast-foods, hair tonics and other springboards to the better life have for years covered the walls of subway stations with vivid posters. . . . Young voyagers . . . frequently add a mustache here, a black eye there, thus proving their disrespect for the esthetic effects offered them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Subway Art | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

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