Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Southern friends had to explain that there are, in the South, two kinds...
Those in charge of the Widener Room wish to announce the display of these books during this week and the first part of next, and to state that Mrs. Livingston, the caretaker will show visitors the exhibits and explain features connected with them...
...wonder why my connections with field athletics would bring to my mind the subject of politeness, so I'll explain how this idea came to me. The men of Harvard are the cause of it. They are the most courteous and polite set of men I have ever met on an athletic field. It seems to be traditional with them to be gracious even when in the heat of competition, to accede whenever possible to the wishes of an opponent. I am referring here to their field men, their shotput, discus, hammer and javelin men, who, both in physique...
Lawyer Steuer hastened to explain that the undeclared goods had all belonged to his wife, not to himself. Then "merely ... to demonstrate that there was no possibility for the Government to be wronged of a cent or that she or I should profit a cent," Lawyer Steuer made this astonishing statement...
These are, in the last analysis, of small consequences and too intricate to explain without generally unintelligible technicalities. A far more important consideration is the continued and preposterous refusal of Athletic Associations at Yale, Harvard, Princeton and certain other colleges to provide proper facilities for unfortunate newspaper reporters who are compelled to sit on top of the windy stadiums, fumbling telegraph instruments with frozen thumbs...