Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...approached with respect for the legal and ethical rights of the subject people and also with due regard to the racial prejudices existing on both sides of the fence. That these prejudices are real and in some particulars vital, any resident of Mississippi, California, or Manila can explain. They require statesmanlike consideration, not "threeday" vaporings. These things may appear different in Dubois, Wyoming but in Singapore, Saigon, or Manila a condition must be faced and dealt with, empty ballyhoo will not suffice...
Since 1928 will be the dreaded "Fourth Reparations Year," in which payments under the Dawes plan must reach 1,750,000,000 marks ($416,500,000) for the first time, the deputies were in no hurry, last week, to consider the figures which explain how Germany can pay so huge a sum. As the session began, only minor bills were considered, and the Franco-German Trade Treaty was rushed through its third and final reading...
...Columbia University. Invited to attend were more than 500 potent U. S. businessmen, financiers & economists-from Vice President Norman I. Adams of the National Shawmut Bank, Boston, to President L. S. Zimmerman of the Maryland Trust Co., Baltimore. They came less to eat than to hear Professor Seligman explain the first thorough analysis of the installment selling problem...
...LETTER-Katharine Cornell devotes more than enough talent to explain the motives of a murderess...
...have said, we have always lauded the inventor. But both behind and in front of the inventor is the true research worker. The research worker first makes a fundamental discovery; then he proceeds to investigate it in all its aspects and attempts to explain it in its relations with other known phenomena. Next the inventor sees some way of turning this discovery to some practical account-and this is the step ordinarily called invention...