Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...average man--the man who can appeal to his constituents as one of the people, with ordinary feelings and instincts and mentality. And this attitude extends beyond the borders of politics into almost every field of American life. Its effects on education are important and serve perhaps to explain the lesser value attributed to studies in America as compared with Europe...
General Dietrix's account of the murders agrees in the main with other reports, but sheds new light upon the unlovely incident. Hitherto no one has been able to explain the discovery of the religious icons which were found some distance away from the pyre upon which the bodies were burnt, and the failure of various investigators to find any teeth among the ashes. The icons, which were worn around the necks of the Imperial Family, were evidently displaced by the act of decapitation and the missing teeth were carried away with the heads. That the heads...
...only one respect are the two productions absolutely equal that is in the number of bootleggers in each production. The members of the play committee were particularly careful to explain that these unconstitutional characters had nothing to do with liquor. But some one had to step through sliding panels to steal the family silverware, and so the authors decided that it might just as well be bootleggers...
...would be easy to explain the enormous growth in the popularity of English during the past two years in either of two ways. By an ingenious argument it might be demonstrated that rumors about the extension of the tutorial system to the field of English were attracting aspirants; equally conclusively it might be shown that the disadvantages consequent upon the present situation had been exaggerated and that a lack of tutors had not prevented increases which were due to the character of the subject and to the greater liberalism with which it was taught...
...offered tonight when the second business competition of the year begins in the Lampoon building at 7 o'clock. The work of the competition will consist chiefly of obtaining subsriptions and advertisements for the Lampoon. J. McR. Kimball '24, who will be in charge of the competition, will explain its details this evening...