Word: explained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appear before the executive committee and explain their absence in order to maintain their membership. All but one did. He resigned...
What Monro saw in the forms Glimp submitted he can't really explain; it must have been more than Glimp's being rural and mid-Western, though that was something Harvard wanted. For whatever reason, he put the folder aside and read it again--and again. Then, with some misgivings, he recommended that the College accept the man who would 20 years later succeed him as its Dean...
Trying to figure out "personal quality" on the basis of one interview--or even worse, on the basis of 15 or 20 pages of recommendations and auto-biography--isn't easy. The man who can explain precisely what he likes and doesn't like, and persaude others that he's right, can influence a large number of decisions...
This passion to explain away problems in the play, this etiological fetish, produces a tortured prologue in which it is learned that Viola was raped by her pirate captor and her brother forced to look on. From this their madness...
...friends, who admire his way of combining pragmatism with altruism, explain his decision to go to Miles this...