Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Faculty committee in charge of the seven-year law plan meets a week from today, the council of students formed last night hopes to explain its grievances through an undergraduate representative...
Medical School officials explain that the number of students they can admit in the first and second years is directly fixed by the limitations of equipment, while the small increase they did have was due to the fact that they took on six more third year transfer students...
They could explain why raiding Spitsbergen was more effective than raiding the moon. It was not quite so easy to explain why they had not tried a raid on the Norwegian coast, when the Norwegians were so hopefully insurgent and when their own equipment and chances were so much better than the last time they made that rough trip. In an attempt to explain, War Secretary Captain David Margesson last week wrote his first newspaper article since taking office...
Regarding the answer to Mr. Howard T. Archibald's letter in TIME, Aug. 4; Mr. B. P. Schulberg is not satisfied with an answer which has failed to explain the size of Comrade Stalin's pitcher [TIME, Sept. 1]. This reminds me of Martin Luther, the great German reformer, to whom the question was put by a curious interrogator, "How did God spend his time before he created the world?" Luther's answer:- "He was somewhere in the woods chipping a rod which was to serve him in flogging such an interrogator...
...last week was Germany's Ambassador to Argentina, Baron Edmund von Thermann. Before his eyes one of the Nazis' neatest, costliest propaganda machines was being turned into junk. What was worse, it seemed likely that he would shortly be back in Berlin where he would have to explain what went wrong...