Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stevedore Vito Longo, 55, taxied to an undertaking shop, had himself fitted for a high-priced coffin, paid for it, drove on to a cemetery to make sure the casket would neatly sink into a certain tomb, returned to the mortuary, stayed there. His wife and sons could not explain his suicide...
...well-informed businessman knew about the giant I.T.&T. whose stock had gone up more than 100 points in one year. A year ago, before the Brothers Behn acquired the Mackay telegraph and cable systems (TIME, April 2, 1928), many an executive would have been put to it to explain: 1) What was the International Telephone & Telegraph Corp.; and 2 ) Who were Sosthenes and Hernand Behn...
...bring about an agreement on naval arms with Great Britain at Geneva in 1927 may or may not be laid at Mr. Gibson's door. In Foreign Affairs, for April, John William Davis, onetime (1918-1921) Ambassador to the Court of St. James's undertook to explain this diplomatic breakdown, to minimize Anglo-American differences, to suggest a policy under which naval limitations could be accomplished. Attracting wide attention in Washington, Mr. Davis wrote...
Last week, noticing that the Literary Digest had reprinted an "etaoin shrdlu" line, apparently as a joke but without bothering to explain the mystery to its readers, the ever-practical New York World explained editorially for laymen what every newsman knows...
...other hand, it would be equally wrong to accept the claims of Antifascist agitators. When the concordat between Rome and the Vatican was concluded, for example, you could hear them explain that it was done partly in order to gain the support of the clergy for the forthcoming plebiscite, and a hint was thrown out that such support was rather needed. Now, however, it will be asserted that the people in Italy had no choice but to vote for the Fascist candidates. Emigres are as hard to please as an irate mother-in-law, and who will blame them...