Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...obvious guess is that thunderstorms somehow restore the lost charge, but no one had proved it. Three years ago the institution borrowed airplanes from the Air Force and began to measure electrical stirring in the still air above active thunderheads. Sure enough, the instruments showed a current moving in the opposite direction to the current in fair-weather areas. The scientists figured that all the thunderstorms going on at one time generate a net current of about 1,500 amperes, just enough to balance the drain and keep the earth's charge constant...
...obvious that if Southworth stayed-and his $50,000-a-year contract had three years to run-the Braves would have a reshuffled team. By last week, 13 Braves who had been on Southworth's varsity in May had been traded or sold and half a dozen more were on the block...
Cianfarra's dispatch discreetly ducked the obvious question: Did Ingrid look as if she were an expectant mother in her sixth month? For a colleague, the Timesman had an answer: not at all. That at least threw some doubt on Louella's arithmetic...
Besides their obvious technical advantages, LPs, by their economy, have brought a multitude of new producers into recording. If WHRB is planning a career, it has made a promising start with "Acis." Taking down undergraduate productions is a tremendously worthwhile project both for boosting young performers and making rare works available...
York on their TV set. The plotless show consisted entirely of Goodman's and Jane's comments on the film, of her misinterpretations of the obvious and his exasperated efforts to set her straight. In a typical gag, Ace says, wonderingly: "Imagine the Indians selling Manhattan for $24! And where are the Indians today!" Jane: "Playing baseball for Cleveland." Future shows will have only such subsidiary characters as an eight-year-old all-white West Highland terrier named Blackie and Ace's complaining, cliché-ridden mother-in-law (played by Betty Garde...