Word: explained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WHAT!" That blast jolted the entire secretarial staff; probably the first time in weeks they were all awake at once. Visibly restrained, then, "Would you please explain to me how that figure is computed? I get the uncomfortable feeling I'm being taken for a ride...
...RIDDLE of a Harvard-Yale football game is one which the wiseacres of the football coterie have never been able to solve. If they cannot explain results that have been, surely they cannot predict what results will be. "The odds are on Harvard," some say with a finality that spells a Crimson victory. But who ever heard of odds on Yale, reasonable or unreasonable? "Harvard has a better record," say others, forgetting that games are not won on records. Harvard tried the record policy in 1910 and Yale in 1911, and neither won. "Yale has the old Yale spirit...
Whoever would have thunk it? Both Princeton and Cornell so far out of the race that only one of the two, Princeton, has a shot even at the first division. Some day a better man than I will explain what happened to the Big Red this year; they had the material, but never clicked. Princeton lost a toughie to Harvard and then crumbled before the Dowling machine. The Tigers have enough left, though barely: Princeton 23, Cornell...
...mental state of fear is just a name we give to the helpless feeling of being confronted by something totally unknown, and then trying to find an answer to it and being unable. People fear death because they have to explain it and can't; and they can consciously not fear a vaccination because they know enough about the pain...
...Committee on Educational Policy was not happy with that recommendation; it seemed, Dean Ford explained after the Oct. 23 meeting, that the Faculty was giving with one hand and taking away with the other. Dunlop came to the CEP meeting last week to explain the rationale of his committee's recommendations...