Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This lesson had long since been taught by journalistic mapmakers, notably FORTUNE'S. Last week the lecturer was Columbia University's Professor Ben D. Wood, head of the Government's program to air-condition youngsters. Dr. Wood, touring the nation to explain the new geography to schoolteachers, unveiled his new map (the "air age" projection. supplanting Mercator's) before a group of teachers and principals in Chicago. It will be the official text for geography lessons in schools throughout the land this term...
Many doctors and scientists dismiss the phenomenon as mere illusion and folklore-perhaps because they cannot explain it. But Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. statisticians call the changing ratio "an established fact." It did not occur in the Franco-Prussian War, which lasted only a few months. Nor did it occur in the U.S. in World War I, when only 4% of the population was under arms and only for a short period. But, say the Metropolitan's statisticians, it was the experience of all the principal European countries in World...
...meeting at 4:45 o'clock in Dillon. Although the squad practiced regularly during the second session of Summer School, this meeting, at which Jim Reid, 1928 cross country captain and Harvard record holder the for the two-mile, will speak, will serve to organize the team and explain fall plans to new Freshmen and those who have not been in Summer School...
British officials in Cairo pooh-poohed the story as a German gag to explain the failure of Rommel's drive...
...lacking in Russia. Prime Minister Churchill admitted as much in his speech. Said he: "The Russians did not think that we or America had done enough to take the weight off them. . . . It was difficult to make the Russians comprehend the difficulties of ocean transport. . . . It was difficult to explain fully the different characteristics of the war effort of the various countries...