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Word: explainer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Your Cake. In Fargo's Gardner Hotel they faced pressmen, autograph hunters, bobby-soxers. Clint Anderson took the floor to explain that U.S. wheat farmers could now combine the 30? bonus with the previously announced "certificate plan"-thus assuring them the best possible price for their wheat any time between now and March 1947, no matter when they sell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Butch Goes West | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

...severe than Harvard's, has gone straight into the construction business and has erected 100 units of its own, which will supplement any windfall housing donated by the government. It is even more difficult to imagine that a comparison of the financial positions of the respective institutions would effectively explain why one is looking for more units, while the other has the land and bargains, Fabian-like, with the government, state, city, anybody, to come in and do the job for them. There is no questioning fiscal conservatism in normal times, but pre-war economies plus the traditional administrative lack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wistful Vista | 5/4/1946 | See Source »

Miss Williams' part is simple, but it requires little more than her unpolka-dotted presence to explain both the title of this dismal production and its attraction to Boston's throngs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 4/25/1946 | See Source »

Undergraduates will have two occasions to address "the age that is past" on Tuesday. In the morning, several students will speak along with members of the Faculty, President Conant moderating, while Wilbur J. Bender '27, Counsellor for Veterans, will pick five veterans to explain to an afternoon audience at Sanders Theater "How the War Brought Me to Harvard and What I Expect to Take Away...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Traditional Pomp, Splendor Planned for Commencement | 4/25/1946 | See Source »

Chagall has no words to account for his pictures. Says he: "They are only pictorial arrangements of images that obsess me. The theories which I would make up to explain myself, and those which others elaborate in connection with my work are nonsense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Love & Dread | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

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