Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...March 11 number of your magazine an item appears concerning the Liga Mexicana de Baseball (Mexican Baseball League), of which I am president, and concerning me in particular. . . . I am writing you to explain a few ideas expressed by the scoundrel Rogers Hornsby during his short stay in Mexico...
McGovern is apt to explain Kant in terms of Buicks and boogie-woogie, and fall back frequently on McGovern reminiscences. These include boyhood in Brooklyn, a spell in the English theater, a junket to Tibet's Forbidden City of Lhasa, and his days as a Buddhist monk in Japan. He can also spin yarns about his explorations of Peru's Inca ruins and Formosa's head-hunting country. McGovern is a sound scholar withal, master of twelve languages, author of a Manual of Buddhist Philosophy, and From Luther to Hitler. He was one of the boys...
File & Remember. In Shanghai, perplexed municipal authorities asked the Ministry of the Interior how to explain on census forms the family status of concubines. The prompt answer: write it in under "Noted for future reference...
...Secularism has been growing much faster in American culture than Protestantism. There are many factors which explain this growth. . . . The most obvious ones . . . are: 1) our secularized system of education; 2) our preoccupation with science; and 3) our organized and commercialized entertainment. . . . They represent vast concentrations of social preoccupation against whose tough grain Protestantism in our time has to make...
Agricultural economists hurried to explain it once again. "Parity," one- said, "means a price for the farmer's product which will give it an exchange value, for things the farmer needs to buy, equivalent to that in a specified base period. The base period used as a par is the five prewar years...