Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case is different. Team spirit is shown in various ways. The attitude of the athletes toward each other and toward their followers, as well as toward their opponents, is generally a fair indication of that spirit. Observance of training rules is another indication, perhaps the most obvious...
...doctors whom he has persuaded to speak. It is not easy for a specialist to make himself clear to a lay audience, let alone make himself popular. It has called for laborious preparation as well as the sacrifice of a Sunday afternoon. Yet the success of the series is obvious from the number of late-comers who have to be turned away for want of space...
...most obvious aspects of saving money is minimizing living expenses while commanding as high a wage as possible. The cheapest place to live is usually at home, even if you pay for board and laundry as much as five or six dollars a week. Away from home, twelve to fifteen dollars will be necessary...
...world. One cause of this is undoubtedly the house itself, with its flowing lines and receptiveness to the landscape. Another is undoubtedly the house's builder. Gracious, mischievous and immaculate at 68, Frank Lloyd Wright has little of the patriarch about him except his fine white hair. His obvious and arrogant courage has the abstract indestructibility of a triangle. He thinks of himself as in the "centre line" of Usonian independence that runs through Thoreau and Whitman. Whether or not that line is still central in U. S. culture, there can be little doubt that Frank Lloyd Wright...
...tell American Water Works to get rid of its prune orchards. But if it wished to, said the Commissioners, it could take "a reasonable period of time" to sell them-an obvious effort to convince other utilities that if they become a little more sociable SEC is perfectly willing to make friends...