Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well, TIME presupposes a certain amount of education on the part of its. readers, and the more people there are in the kind of pursuits where keeping informed is a necessity, the more potential readers of TIME there are. So our study helped explain TIME'S steadily growing circulation, because there are a great many more eligible TIME readers around these days than ever before...
That's a Joke, Son. In Huron, S.Dak., sober-faced Clarence Richardson turned up in court to contest his father's will, which left the estate to whoever could best explain why men, life and the Bible are all a joke...
Naturally, Communist gloating was restrained. Deputy Raymond Guyot predicted, "After the triumph of May 5 [the referendum on the Constitution] we will go on to triumph on June 2 [the election of a new Assembly], when Maurice Thorez will become the new Premier!" But he did not explain the connection between the referendum and Communist control of the Government...
...would Socialist President Félix Gouin explain it. His party has collaborated with the Communists on many points over the last year; its policy of trying to please both Left and Right had finally brought it into a reluctant approval of the proposed Constitution. Gouin argued that defeat of the Constitution would postpone Government stability...
...plan to unify Britain's nine Malay States and the Straits Settlements (excluding Singapore) into a single Malay federation was worked out long ago, "in the Coalition days. An ardent Tory, Sir Harold MacMichael, went out to Malaya last October to explain the plan to the nine Sultans. The Sultans themselves promptly consented to sign away all their sovereign powers (except their religious authority). Then they got to thinking it over...