Word: explainable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cells are vulnerable to alcohol, chloroform, uranium nitrate and other poisons. If the poisoning is slight, the destroyed cuboidal cells are promptly replaced. But if the poisoning is serious, peculiar flat cells repair the damage to liver and kidneys. Those flat cells withstand great amounts of intoxication, and possibly explain why mature men and women carry their liquor better than juveniles. "The mechanism which prevents poisons from injuring this type of cells is entirely unknown," said Dr. MacNider...
...have been a one sided score," he remarked when recalling the game, but we got hit harder in that game than, any other all season." He went on to explain that the Crimson eleven gained more yardage through the Dartmouth line than did any other team all season--and only 142 yards were accredited to Harlow's charges as opposed to 333 to the Indians...
...dance with the hostess then." Only he says it sort of ominous-like. So I ask one of these flunkeys with a white flower in his button-hole which is the hostess. And he points over to a girl that looks like she'd kept pretty well, and I explain I want the Old lady's daughter. Then it turns out this is the daughter. So then I know what Charley means, and I get careful. She has on one of those long pink dresses with icing and forgetmenots around the neck, and she's got a green orchid strapped...
...cover: it did not deny in any major point the statements made in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's articles about his Klan connections. It did not say whether his original resignation from the Klan was bona fide or merely a 1926 campaign gesture. It did not explain why he had accepted the "unsolicited card" or whether he had tried to give it back. In particular it did not deny the effusive speech attributed to him at a Klan klorero after the unsolicited card had reached him. Most of all it did not tell whether he joined the Klan...
Outraged delegations speedily called on President Martin to explain the dismissal of the men largely responsible for the union's triumph over General Motors. Mr. Martin took refuge in the Eddystone Hotel. The delegations swarmed through the lobby, picketed the entrances. Telephone appeals for an audience were rebuffed with reports that Mr. Martin was out. Finally a group commanded by a unionist named Robert Gallagher penetrated to the fourth floor, started to pound and kick at Room...