Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sudden grimness developed at Peiping, now in its 30th day of siege, but the form it took cannot be divulged. The censor is obdurate. He is not convinced that the facts he is trying to conceal will sooner or later leak out . . . Let the censor explain why you cannot say a shell exploded about 100 feet from the office where two Americans were working . . . Let him explain why you cannot say other shells exploded . . . Finally, let the censor answer the question, 'If the Reds shell a city, do they or don't they know...
Physics still has its work cut out for it, however. It will take about 50 years, thinks Gamow, to complete a theory of elementary length. Then the physicists can explain everything physical, from atoms to the universe, in tidy, clean-cut mathematics...
...registration statement which Farnsworth had filed with SEC for a new stock issue of 270,000 shares. He noticed something odd. It showed a loss of $3,100,000 for the six months. The Exchange suspended trading in the stock for an hour, to give Farnsworth a chance to explain...
...Foundation, the greatest institution of music patronage in the world. On establishing the Foundation, Mrs. Coolidge wrote, "Fashion is an enemy to art, I think, and if we aim at a musical center which shall be as respectively national as the Library... it would be an easy matter to explain the emission of the society element. I have wished to make possible... the composition and performance of music in ways which might otherwise be considered too unique or too expensive to be ordinarily undertaken...
...wanted repeal of the Taft-Hartley law and re-enactment of the Wagner Act with some "improvements" such as a ban on jurisdictional strikes. Then he called for new taxes to raise $4 billion in additional revenues and five days later sent along a 1,400-page budget to explain it. He no longer advocated, as he had last year, restoring the wartime excess-profits tax. He urged Congress instead to get the money by raising rates on straight corporation taxes and rates on incomes in the middle and upper brackets...