Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vinogradova, that highly temperamental young Juno of the Soviet Textile Trust who makes amazing platform boasts of the scores & scores of Soviet looms she is able to tend simultaneously, the Young Communists sneered that Soviet cinema directors are following Stakhanovite Vinogradova around, beseeching her to realize that, with her obvious talents as a highly emotional actress, she is wasting herself in Stakhanovism and should go on the Soviet screen...
...only in these obvious ways, but in the wrigglings of tiny bacteria, causing dull pain and anger and bad temper and unhappiness in otherwise invincible souls; in the Virus, which none yet understand save as agony and slow, torturous death; in the horrid unfinished minds of morons, lunatics, imbeciles, and idiots, living feebly and bewildered and sometimes in great pain, and also in those great ideals and principles which make it necessary to keep such things in their misery; there also will you find me active...
...naval bases, seeks an international treaty to hold all navies down to small-sized short-ranged warboats. The U. S., having fewer naval bases, seeks an international treaty permitting all navies to have large-sized, long-ranged warboats. Last week His Majesty's Loyal Opposition argued that the obvious and fair solution is for the U. S. to enter a treaty limiting all navies to small-sized, short-ranged warboats in return for a guarantee by the U. K. that all British naval bases will be available to the U. S. Navy...
Elizabeth Bowen's progress as a novelist has been no less remarkable than the lack of attention her progress has aroused. Though it was obvious from her first book that she was an exceptionally gifted writer she has had the unfortunate faculty of frightening plain readers away. Her first novel, The Hotel, was bitterly amusing; To the North (TIME, March 13, 1933) was chillingly clever. But readers who had not yet discovered her or had not been scared off by her icy intelligence found in The House in Paris nothing to alarm or repel them, felt it descend...
...perfectly obvious to farseeing persons that this business of skipping a day, adding a day, dropping what is added and adding what is dropped, and then chucking the whole works every four hundred years leads inevitably to confusion and discontent. It is not only subversive, it is stupid. It is high time that those organizations which concern themselves with the welfare of humanity devote some time and effort, money and thought to a problem that is as vital as it is neglected...