Word: explained
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...professional caste of those who from mother and daughter take this role. It is perhaps why such passable ability of that of Miss Bryton is in this case wasted. Also the hero (we call Mr. Powers the buffoon) rushes through his sentences with rapidity which we may only explain by assuming that he knows their worthlessness and superfluity. There used to be a tradition of a certain American terseness and nervous directness in speech. It was a silly exaggeration but the pea dulum has swung back...
...midst of a dry Cambridge and a rapidly-drying nation, and gallantly wave its beer-bottle to the bitter end. But if it admits that the traffic is harmful, I cannot see how it is justified in filling its coffers from any such sources. I wish it would explain its position. WALTER M. HORTON...
...humorous as well as the serious side of the situations created by the war, and if the graphic pen pictures in his book may be taken as a criterion, he is the best qualified of any of the lecturers whom England has so far sent to this country to explain her part in the war. Members of the University will have an excellent opportunity to hear him when he speaks in Sanders Theatre this afternoon at four o'clock...
...name Ian Hay as the author of "The First Hundred Thousand," will lecture in Sanders Theatre next Monday afternoon, December 11, at 4 o'clock, under the auspices of the Cambridge Surgical Dressing Committee, Captain Beith has been sent to this country by the British government to explain Britain's part in the war. He has already lectured on his experiences, both in the training camp at Aldershot and at the front, at both Yale and Princeton...
...situation is very much as though two men should come to harsh blows because one had accidentally broken the point of the other's pencil. In both cases a mere trifle would have resulted in important developments; the immediate cause could not possibly justify or explain the resultant action...