Word: explainable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then Secretary Hoover launched into his ponderous report to explain exactly how the last fiscal year was such a business success. Significant points...
...admired" Miss Vanderbilt at the date in question; declined further comment. With these distressing rev elations coming thick and fast, the Protestant half of Manhattan recalled that there was still a pronunciamento to come, a review of all the premises and conclusions which would undoubtedly clear the air, explain all. This would be the self-volunteered statement promised by Protestant Episcopal Bishop Manning. The Bishop, Society remembered, had once known sharp-tongued Mrs. Belmont; had excluded her name, as divorcee, from the year book of a charity home that she herself had founded in his diocese. The Bishop, in short...
...hold Ph.D. degrees," asserted William Benneit Munro '99, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History and Government; yesterday when asked by a CRIMSON representative to comment upon the questionnaire recently sent out by the American Historical Association. This questionnaire asks instructors and graduate students at universities throughout the country to explain what facilities are afforded them for conducting independent research work and also to state their individual opinions in regard to the causes for the dearth of productive work by holders of Ph.D degrees. If the results of this survey indicate an actual need for revision of the present system...
...theory of romantic irony, one of the most extravagant theories of that extravagant movement, was first worked out by Friederich Schlegel. "Formerly," says Heine, himself a romantic ironist, "when a man had said a stupid thing he had said it; now he can explain it away as irony...
...some interior volition- these he painted. To describe his paintings in this way is to speak principally of the thought that organized them; of his color critics have said "Tintoretto," of his fluidity "Byzantium." Whatever such words mean, let them stand. They are good tags because they mean little, explain nothing. No one has ever explained Dominico Theotocopuli. Neither arrogant nor humble, he loved arrogance and understood humility. He painted many gentlemen of Spain for their pride, their narrow hands, their pale and pointed faces, their ruffs and their sombre eyes in which still smoldered the last fires...