Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...connection with your table of payroll tax deductions under the Senate Bill, you state ". . . beginning July 1, most wage earners will find their pay checks lopped by about 20%-17% income tax plus 3% Victory tax." You do not explain, however, that the 20% is assessed not upon the full amount of the pay check, but only upon that part which is in excess of the taxpayer's personal exemptions and an allowance for average deductions. As is indicated in the attached table . . . which extends your figures to show the amount of tax withheld as a percentage...
...heard the one about the traveling salesman ..." Mr. Chiddister, "Why did I apply for a commission ... life was sure wonderful at Great Lakes." Mr. Baldwin, "The is placed before an on page 63 of the Manual, whereas in the Memo the and is before the the--could you please explain this?" Mr. Bunje. "Take it from me life in the South Sea Islands is all right." Mr. Block, "Boy, could I have a good time in the South Sea is lands," Mr. Dutton, "Life wasn't like this with Du Pont." Mr. LeVee, "I've got the picture." Mr. Painter...
German propagandists were hard put to it to explain why Admiral Doenitz' "inexorable U-boat warfare" (TIME, May 10) was working in reverse. Sample efforts...
...such occasions high U.S. or British officials come to the bank's defense and explain that its business, under McKittrick, is so conducted that none of its operations could possibly confer an advantage on any belligerent nation at the expense of another. These operations consist chiefly of: 1) collecting interest; 2) semi-automatic renewal of maturing investments (no new ones are made); 3) extending limited credits to central banks; 4) handling payments under the international postal agreement and prewar treaties; 5) acting as banker for the International Red Cross organizations operating from Switzerland. Last year the bank...
Then, on Monday, Captain McIntosh, Commander Collins, Deans David and Smith, Professors Baker and Bates not only began to explain the rhetorical "A case is a case is a case," but soon made us feel once again a dynamic (even if still quite lowly) part of the Navy. Yes, we were here to study, and to eventually do a job. That made us feel much better, looking forward to that day when we might come through with an "Aye, Aye, sir" in the full sense of the word...