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Word: explainer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aside from the shortage itself, the overwhelming fact of the famine was that no one could explain it. Of all the Congressional investigators, retailers and wholesalers, the men who know tobacco best, no one came up with a sensible answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Then There Were None | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

...Program. This program schedules every hour that a man is not eating, sleeping or undergoing treatment. It aims to build up his strength and keep him cheerful through physical and mental exercises. Though few have much interest to start with, all eventually take part with good grace. Asked to explain why, one officer said: "They love it. The hospital gives a fellow the first pampering he's had since he was in the Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Wounded | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

Frost mentioned a letter he had received, asking him to explain "his philosophical tenets in the field of cosmology and set forth ideas on abstract things such as: quality, quantity." "I am in favor of both," said Frost with a grin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FROST ASSAILS DISSECTING OF POETS' THEMES | 12/8/1944 | See Source »

...hills, just did not believe the school board understood the situation. His three sons had to walk along a branch and down a holler and did not get home until after dark. He sent his 26-year-old son, Orville, to town on muleback to explain about the wildcat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENTUCKY: A Howlin' in the Holler | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

Meanwhile Mac Wallace handed the Governor an ultimatum: Coke Stevenson must telegraph each Regent requesting that he explain in open meeting the basis of the Board's decision. If not, the students would "sit down" on the Capitol lawn. Said Coke, "I've been around the campfire long enough to know you can't drink coffee out of a boiling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Trouble in Texas | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

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