Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...punch was there. The guests, the most literary minded in Cambridge, were there. But the Advocate has yet to explain what happened to their guest of honor, Somerset Maugham. As usual on such occasions, rumors were plentiful. The one picked up by those "who are in a position to know," was that he had to catch a plane "somewhere." They say that the animal who has given rides to so many celebrities in the famous Advocate barouche wept bitter tears, took a slug of the punch, and promptly died...
...principle, but the method permitted. To quote the editors of Fortune. "The means permitted by the Catholic Church are based upon what Pope Pius XI referred to (in his Encyclical on Christian Marriage, December 31, 1931) as the circumstances of time, known as the Safe Period method; and to explain how this works, dignitaries of the Church have written, or put their imprimatur upon pamphlets and books that are freely distributed through the mails to millions of people." Despite Catholic opposition to medical contraception, a public opinion survey made in 1940 indicated that 72 per cent of the Catholics...
...been my purpose to refute or overbalance the statistical arguments in your editorial or to explain why we believe birth control contrary to natural law. It would be too lengthy a discussion. Arthur J. Egan...
Tonight's meeting will have three speakers. The first will be Phillip Bornstein, head of the Massachusetts Committee of Public Safety's evacuation plan, who will explain the process of removing people from the various areas of greater Boston which might be bombed...
Anyone who has spent time and money learning about jazz soon finds that even his best friends can't stand the music he has grown to love. They present to him a solid bulwark of misunderstanding that resists all his efforts to explain, much less convert. Generally this opposition resolves itself into two kinds. One kind says jazz is corny, out of date; you can't dance to it. The other kind says it's transient; you have to think to produce "great" music. The one has been blinded by tastes in popular music; the other has been blinded...