Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Herbert Clark Hoover kept quiet as a turtle and let friends explain in his behalf the fact, dug up by busy nobodies, that he and Mrs. Lou Henry Hoover, both Quakers, were married by a Catholic priest. The occasion, in 1899, required haste because Mr. Hoover had to sail from California next day for China. The Rev. Raymon Maria Mestries, Monterey mission priest, was no gladder than they that he had a dispensation to marry Protes- tants...
...hundred fifty two train passengers were killed in 1926 (latest available figures). In 1906, when the travelling public was much smaller, 359 were killed. Steel coaches, which in large part have replaced wooden coaches on the major railroads, largely explain the difference.* In 1906 a train wreck meant a holocaust? passengers mangled in cars telescoped and burning. In 1926 a wreck meant simply a bad accident. Steel may twist in a crash. It does not splinter nor burn. Pioneer in equipping passenger trains with all-steel cars was the Pennsylvania Railroad. Since 1907 it has bought no wooden ones. What...
Counsel for the defense partially denied and partially attempted to explain away the activities of their clients on the grounds that they had merely been seeking "research material" for a pacifist German scholar who wanted to write a book exposing British militarism. When the "scholar" could not be produced or even proved to have existed, the defence became palpably thin, evanescent...
Bull. President Wallace Walter Atwood, of Clark University, appeared before his students to explain suspension of two editors and a contributor of the Clark College Monthly. The offense: publication of a one-act play, Bull Session. "O-scene," said President Atwood...
Italy has about 250,000 factories, of which less than 10% employ 10 or more persons each. Few good highways, little mineral resources and especially a paucity of coal mines hamper the factories. They must import almost all their raw materials. Expensive materials and frail employes explain why textiles constitute the chief manufactured products of Italy, why food products come next, why steel and engineering industries have progressed slowly. If Italy had at least cheap motive power for her factories, they could become larger, more numerous and more productive of diversified goods. And Italy has in her mountains great stores...