Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Latin American delegate said: "We don't get it. When Manuilsky votes with the Russians that requires no explanation back home. But when Mrs. Pandit votes with them, as she often will, that will hurt us. Why doesn't the U.S. delegation send somebody around to explain its insistence on Mrs. Pandit? It looks a little stupid...
...Secret of Matter. Nobel Physicist Ernest Orlando Lawrence, father of cyclotrons, told of the feats of his latest (4,000 ton) baby. The most important: it had uncovered evidence that might explain the mysterious "binding force" which keeps all matter from flying apart...
...theorized mathematically that the protons and neutrons in a nucleus might bat electric charges rapidly back & forth among themselves. While a particle had possession of a charge, it would be a proton. When it lost the charge, it would become a neutron. Heisenberg reasoned that such "charge exchange" might explain the binding force, but he couldn't prove...
Greying, blue-eyed Walter White, for 16 years executive secretary of the Na tional Association for the Advancement of Colored People, has a skin so light that he frequently has to explain that he is, in deed, a Negro. Last week, in the Saturday Review of Literature, Propagandist White talked openly about a subject many Ne groes are careful to avoid: the Negro who lives secretly as a white man. Wrote he : "Every year approximately 12,000 white-skinned Negroes disappear - people whose absence cannot be explained by death or emigration. Nearly every one of the 14 million discernible Negroes...
...purpose of this story, however, is not to discuss the advisibility of either choice but simply to explain what the author saw on Saturday in New Haven...