Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is nothing startlingly original in "The Cat and the Canary." Its originality lies chiefly in the fact that not a single one of the hackneyed, conventional thriller devices is omitted. If we could sit back coldly and explain to those in the few rows within whispering distance that, technically speaking, it is not a very good play, we might not be so very far wrong. Despite our utmost efforts, however, we find ourselves constantly on the edge of our seats, on the very verge of yelling to the heroine in distress, "Hey! Look behind you!" So what...
This may serve to explain the Oxford man's innate suspicion of education by lectures, which he regards as a form of persecution depriving him of the right to hit back when provoked. The essence of his own method of education is best expressed by the common phrase that So-and-so is "reading" for honours in history; it may also be illustrated by the statement in "Who's Who" of a distinguished scholar hailing from Eton and Oxford that he was "self-educated...
Requests have been coming to the University from business schools throughout the country for an explanation of the case system schools. Professor David, who was the originator of the case system in teaching retail store management and insurance banking, has therefore been asked to explain his method at the conference...
...acquiring that knowledge. The general examination is a test not of the student's memory of more facts but of his ability to explain and correlate facts...
...Advocate very graciously gave them a copy. Just as trouble seemed to be brewing, an editor burst in, and, sizing up the situation, hastened to explain matters. An appeal was made to the intellectual capacities of the policemen, and it was confidentially explained that the parody was offered as a literary parody for cultured people...