Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With such a clear-cut division of parties the outcome was obvious. Not a single Republican voted for the bill, but 14 voted against it. They were joined by a handful of Democrats, mostly from sugar and cattle States. Then the big Democratic majority did its work and reciprocal trade agreements were sanctioned for another three years...
...pinnacle of world power to indulge in painting during his leisure hours. Only those who have spent four years eating Mr.Westcott's prime ribs and ragout of lamb can comprehend the forces which drove to her present posient position the head waitress of one of our Houses, which for obvious reasons shall be nameless...
Unabashed, Mr. Ashurst now replied: "It is obvious from the record that that is my utterance. The rhetoric alone carries its proof. . . . The man who attempts to be consistent in his public service may end up consistent indeed, but never accomplish anything else...
...given by prominent men to problems which, in textbooks, seem entirely "academic", the importance with which these problems are invested by the willingness of industrial and governmental leaders to come to Cambridge to discuss them, the stimulation attendant upon new facts and divergent points of view; all these are obvious benefits. But more important still is the feeling which conferees must have had that no theory offered by professors, no method advocated by intrenched groups was infallible. All must have seen that a tremendous state of flux surrounded the problems. With this comes the realization that the solution or solutions...
...brawny shoulder put to the wheel by the professors of the three colleges hardly requires mention, so obvious is the fruit of their effort. Little less apparent is the zestful work of editors of the "Daily Princetonian" and the "Yale News", and the slowly-realized but now effective support of the undergraduates in the three colleges...