Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Saratzeanu?" cried several flabbergasted representatives, and others indignantly moved for a temporary suspension of the session which the Speaker granted. In the interval the Cabinet retired into a second huddle and henchmen of the Prime Minister busily circulated among the rustic members of the Peasant Party, to explain that Constantin Saratzeanu was an honorable though inconspicuous rooster on the Rumanian Supreme Court bench...
...your issue of Sept. 9, p. 52 in the column on Education. Mr. Crabtree (Secretary of the National Education Association) complains that chain stores and mail order houses pick up profits in villages which are taxed at the headquarters in a far away place. We wish Mr. Crabtree would explain just how this is done, as profits are taxed under the Federal Income Tax law and I supposed that the taxes went to Washington whether the owners of a business lived in the village where it is conducted or in a large city far away. Perhaps Mr. Crabtree refers...
Judges Victor Raynard Woolley and W. H. Seward Thompson (with Judge Joseph Buffington dissenting) went on to explain that "Transportation by the seller is a mere incident in the sale and necessary to its completion...
...Nationals, and compiled an impressive record for steady good play. Some would like to see Lott above Hunter, and a good many would like to see Doeg down the list some distance, but these two seem to have earned their ranking, even if there are few who can explain it reasonably...
...probably not as prevalent at Harvard as it is in many small New England colleges," he continued, "Harvard's reputation comes from the fact, no doubt, that she always does things in a grand manner. The University does what it feels should be done, and doesn't bother to explain, though the heathen rage...