Word: explainer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sometimes people who are fruitful in other matings are not fruitful as partners (e.g., Napoleon and Josephine). Doctors do not understand this strange incompatibility, but think it may explain those baffling couples who have nothing wrong with them yet remain childless...
...known, also likes to visit 5-&-10 stores, admiring their glittering gadgets. When a friend gave him a zipper bag, Einstein delightedly zipped and unzipped it again & again. He hates strenuous exercise, pretentious people. The usual conversational approach of dowagers when introduced to him is to ask him to explain his relativity theory. Einstein sometimes obliges, soon reduces them to stunned silence...
...home, Einstein is almost unvaryingly gentle, even-tempered, meekly obedient-and impersonal. He has never tried to explain relativity to his family. His scientific life is strictly solitary. When, as often happens even at mealtimes, he falls into long mathematical reveries, his family is careful not to disturb him. This cool detachment extends even to his closest personal relationships. When his wife died eight years ago, Einstein turned stoically "from her bedside, said quietly: "Bury...
Geoffrey Crowther, editor of the famed London Economist and of Transatlantic, the new London monthly which labors to explain the U.S. to the British, said: "American listeners should realize that we are more frightened of an American depression after the war than we are of a British depression. We want to be sure that America will not allow another gigantic depression...
...Editor Harris: "If fifty million monkeys with fifty million typewriters tapped for fifty million years, one of them would produce a Shakespeare sonnet. I hope MacAuley and Stewart have not produced such a phenomenon. It is not their claims of exposure but time [that] tells the story. Time will explain that a myth is sometimes greater than its creators...