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Word: explainable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three days elapsed before Adolf Hitler & Co. replied to Franklin Roosevelt. They did so in the same idiom as Ambassador Wilson's recall. Ambassador Hans Dieckhoff was ordered home from Washington to explain what the official Nazi news agency called the "eigenartig" ("singular") attitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Singular Attitude | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...Knox was arrested on the charge of forging her mother's endorsement to pension checks, but she refused to believe her mother was dead, could not explain the whereabouts of Sumner Knox. When a State detective tried to snatch a letter from her, powerful Mrs. Knox jerked his arm so hard that she broke a knitting fracture in his neck. Her lawyer announced: "She wants the public to feel that she is at least halfway human-not at all the monster that idle rumor has made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Lady of Le Mans | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...paper on the "K-effect" as yet unpublished, Miss Pishmish declined to explain the cryptic phrase. Her work here, in the Milton Bureau investigating variable stars was no better defined...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Istanbul Austronomy Student Denies That Kemal Ataturk Was Dictator | 11/23/1938 | See Source »

Also Showing Just Around the Corner (Twentieth Century-Fox). Shirley Temple. Bill Robinson, Franklin Pangborn and Charles Farrell in a gentle little comedy designed to explain the facts of the Depression to the youngest generation and to prove that for the cinema's No. i child actress, box-office oblivion is still far down the road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 21, 1938 | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...prospective candidates for the CRIMSON competitions which begin tomorrow night at 7:30 o'clock are invited to visit the CRIMSON building tonight. An editor from each of the boards will be present to explain the organization and working of the paper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON COMPETITIONS | 11/15/1938 | See Source »

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