Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First obvious injustice of the new money was that it loaded wholesalers with certificates for which they were required to buy stamps, could not use for purchases of goods outside the Province. Premier Aberhart promised to redeem part of their certificates each month in cash to keep goods coming into the Province...
Last week Enrico Fermi had his picture taken holding a hollow globe of paraffin as big as a pumpkin, standing beside a piece of apparatus that looked like stovepipe put together with baling wire (see cut). Said Dr. Fermi: "The most obvious application of artificial radioactivity which can be foreseen is in the medicinal field. Radium, naturally radioactive, is used for the treatment of cancer. The completely new radioactive substances created in the laboratory should give medical men new tools, some of which may prove more efficient than radium...
...readiness to clinch the wagers when Spotswood D. Bowers, Mr. Gerard's law partner, suddenly recalled a New York law which denies felons, bribe-takers and those who bet on elections the right to vote. Obvious to all was the embarrassing probability that Democrat Gerard would, if he publicly bet his $20,000, be challenged at the polls...
...directors once felt impelled to warn him: "We may seem to you unduly sensitive to public, or rather informed financial opinion. The reason is that those who disregard this opinion seem, in the end, to be 'unlucky.' . . . The aspect of dealing with oneself will be more obvious to outsiders than to those of us who have followed the affair...
...violence, dismisses in a sentence a circus fire in which "a sailor and nine Boy Scouts were burned alive." Her paintings have the quality her childhood instructors tried in vain to cure her of-a heavy hand. Her drawing is strong. The point of her pictures is always heartily obvious. Now at 59, she is a highly respectable figure in the British art world with her personal trademarks of a sombrero and velvet jacket, her hair in two buns over the ears...