Search Details

Word: explainer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...went on to explain that the film will receive careful distribution. Mainly designed for what Breyer calls "carriage trade" theaters, "A Touch of the Times" will be aimed for America's and Europe's most distinguished movie houses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ivy Films Sell World Rights To New Movie | 4/16/1949 | See Source »

...process of sifting and shifting to find the right combination will continue. It is something only a crew coach can understand, and even he cannot explain it to the outsider. Bolles describes the task as "something you just see, or feel, or smell," but the job is not quite as nebulous as that. It consists of trying all the possible combinations until you hit upon the one that works best, but even when it happens you never know quite why it should be that...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Lining Them Up | 4/15/1949 | See Source »

...explain the great mystery of the enormous wealth of the times came first the apologists: they claimed that the great industrialists were enriching the country as a whole and should therefore be encouraged by all and adequately recompensed for their great work. The literary pendulum then swung to the other extreme with the muckrakers, who exposed the corruption and evils of the business world and ascribed greedy motives to all men of wealth...

Author: By Edward J. Sack, | Title: The Bookshelf | 4/12/1949 | See Source »

...wanted to cry: 'But I loved your country! I wanted to write, to explain it to the world!' The words froze. He wouldn't permit them, nor would he understand them." The commissar rose to pronounce judgment: Journalist Strong was to be expelled for spying. "I tried once more to protest that I wasn't a spy ... He said, 'Dismissed,' very curtly, and I went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Lady & the Commissar | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

Specifically, what is bothering me is the incomprehensible way in which Mr. August Limber '50 is able to correct an error on page four in the Spring Golf Schedule in today's paper, on THE SAME DATE that the error appears in print. Can you explain this enigma for me? Edward F. Burke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Asks Explanation | 4/1/1949 | See Source »

Previous | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | Next