Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bible says that, until Adam, "there was not a man to till the ground" and that Eve was "the mother of all living." Now the only recorded children of Adam and Eve are Cain and Abel. Cain slew Abel. Mr. Shipman offers the following possible theories to explain the per- petuation of the human race: 1) Cain's wife was made, like Adam, from the dust or, like Eve, from her husband's rib. But Mr. Shipman "would see something grotesque in the idea of a Cain brought up through baby hood, childhood and youth to meet...
...Will not some of the good Republican brethren, in the interest of the Republican Party and in order that the Constitution may be preserved, call upon the silent man in the White House to explain his connection with Max Mitchell's crooked bank deal and Mitchell's campaign contribution to the Coolidge Campaign Fund in violation of the laws of the State of Massachusetts and, if he does not explain his part in this transaction, ask the Republican Party to withdraw his name from the race...
...Club will hold its second meeting in the Faculty Room of the Union tonight at 8 o'clock. The club has secured Mr. Fechtner, of the Machinist's Union of Massachusetts to speak. Mr. Fechtner, who has been very active in the strike in the Waltham clock works, will explain the laboring man's point of view towards the present election...
John Corbin, League correspondent for The New York Times, asked Count Harry Kessler, semi-official German delegate to the League Assembly and German delegate to the 1923 Williamstown Conference (TIME, Aug. 20, 1923), to explain the whys and wherefores of the German decision. Three questions were posed...
...knew the town of New York as well as Konrad Bercovici does, I should be sure never to be bored of an evening. In this latest book of his, he tries to explain the foreign quarters, and does it admirably; but the joy of discovery can never be ours if we follow a guide book. I shall never forget one or two early pilgrimages with him among strange coffee houses and narrow streets. Why not write a novel, Mr. Bercovici, that will catch the impressive magic of cosmopolitan New York...