Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish there were words adequate enough to explain how deeply most of us feel about being out here; how much it means to us to win completely and unequivocally so that our sons and our sons' sons, and those of our enemy need not know this again; how much it hurts to be forced to the realization that so many of our hopes are empty...
...trade and investment which the war had shattered. In 1920 he became the Bank's Governor-until then by precedent usually a two-year job. Shy, retiring, yet possessed of an iron will, Norman held office for twenty-four momentous years. During these years his motto was: "Never explain, never apologize." He prided himself on not being a theorist. His rare speeches were poorly delivered generalities. He rarely wrote anything for publication. Though bitterly attacked, he never retorted to criticism...
...have something to do with it? To minds troubled by worldwide death recurred an old wives' saying: nature tries to make up for man's mass killings by multiple births. How else explain the widespread news of quintuplets, quadruplets, triplets and twins? Last month had seen U.S. Army Sergeant Bill Thompson's British-born quadruplets (TIME, March 13), the Argentine Diligenti quintuplets (TIME, March 27), the Argentine quadruplets born (they soon died) the same week the Diligentis were discovered, the sextuplets Nicaragua claimed one day, denied the next. Last week Manhattan's Sloane Hospital for Women...
Many U.S. editors have tried to explain the Bulletin's long, steadily strengthened grip on Philadelphia's readers. Most have given up with a too-easy revision of its slogan to: "Only in Philadelphia Would Nearly Everybody Read the Bulletin." The paper fits no familiar pattern for success. Unlike the crusading St. Louis Post-Dispatch, it almost never upsets an applecart, seldom even nudges one. It does not go in heavily for foreign correspondence. It is never spectacular...
...Lancelot Hogben's Mathematics for the Million he had a best-seller (200,000 copies) which won the praise of such mathematicians as Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell. Last fortnight he published a Hogben-edited book which is equally scholarly and fit for laymen. It seeks to explain the evolution, anatomy, functioning, diseases and future of language...