Word: explained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surface had been laid during a warmer period, the bubbles would not have developed, officials explain. "If the temperature went down 40 degrees tomorrow, the bubbles probably would disappear," Haggerty says...
...should not be destroyed. Harvard's only use was as a forum for our protest I, at least, did not need to ask whether Harvard should expand, because I had found nothing at Harvard worth saving. The War, racial discrimination, police brutality and the violation of University autonomy may explain the actions of many of those who struck after the Bust, but for me, at least, something very different was involved, something that seems when I call it up today, like self destruction...
...familiar explanations cannot explain this intensity. The draft was not really a threat to wealthy college students, and the tightening job market would have hardly inspired such revolutionary fervor...
While Koppel says "you have to ignore stories like that," he nonetheless takes a moment to explain. "There is no 'Nightline' logo on my pool," he says. "There is a white tile outline of a city scope and some fiber optics that give it a starlight effect. It was the contractor's idea and was meant as a whimsical touch for the family...
...habit of medieval thought had been to explain the world of animals and plants as images of the virtues, the vices, of God's nature and the events of the Bible. Nature presented itself as a web of moral symbols, and the Pre-Raphaelites tried strenuously to revive this cast of mind. Every detail tells a story and wants to be decoded. It can be quite a tiring business "reading" a full-scale Pre-Raphaelite allegory, like Hunt's The Hireling Shepherd, 1851-52. This sunny, pastoral scene of two rustics flirting was actually a warning against...