Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Loftfield tagged a protein-building amino acid called l-alzmine with the isotope, watched what cancer tissue and normal liver tissue did with it in test tubes. They found that cancerous livers absorbed the amino acid much faster than normal livers. Eventually, their experiments might help explain why cancer cells grow disastrously faster than normal cells...
...much punch as the Italian movie on a somewhat similar subject, Shoeshine (TIME, Sept. 8), if Author Sze had been content to present the stark facts of her matter. As it is, she pads out her story by bringing refugee adults into the camp-boring adults who try to explain, in the hackneyed, childish language of pseudo-philosophy, the desperate situation which the children have already expressed with such matureness...
...than other information. Facts, as Mark Twain noted, can be presented in such a way that they merely create "confusion of the mind and congestion of the ducts of thought." The reader's digestion of news will never be "effortless." TIME, however, tries to sift, sort, condense and explain the news by this simple standard: How much effort can an ordinarily educated and intelligent man or woman be expected to use in understanding this story? It's no use saying that 80 million Americans ought to have a thorough grasp of physics by this time next year. Whether...
...going against the notions of TIME readers and TIME editors, who have seen so much evidence of Communist discipline and solidarity that they would find it hard to believe in the split. So I knew my main job was to convince the editors. To do this I had to explain very carefully and logically the sequence of events that caused the split. I knew most of the explanation would not be published in the magazine, but I knew that the editors would need the explanation to satisfy themselves that I was right...
...juvenile court last week the boys tried in vain to explain what had come over them. Said one: "We like the sound of falling glass...