Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knows of what the people of our sister dominions are thinking knows that some of them, particularly those who look out on the Pacific, feel that in Washington there is an instinctive understanding of difficulties which, when they come to London, they have laboriously to explain to Downing Street...
Exactly what she expected to accomplish by this strategic move the account does not explain. However, it failed since Daniel...
...intellect, be it sufficiently subtle, may be able to explain logically how spirits are substantial enough to reflect light, and why the timid creatures, shrinking to invisibility before human gaze, pose so graciously for the photographer. But who will explain the face of Battling Siki among the ethereal throng? Perhaps, the spirits were merely indulging in a low order of practical joke. Such humor, however, is scarcely worthy of men who have attained a more or less fixed station in life, or out of it: and any such explanation must be regarded as a feeble excuse for the somewhat chagrined...
...Italians accusations-all, that is, save one American judge, who took the whole affair as a joke. Whereupon the Italian, hearing of his coolness, took that coolness toward their insults as an insult to themselves! A double-hitch on the problem of "honor" that goes far to explain, and laguh away, a great many of the dangerous "dissensions" that marred the Games! Far from being "mischieyous", such experiences, if regarded in the proper and unsensational light, will even aid in international appreciation of character and feeling. A man-or a nation-becomes very little of an enigma once you have...
...opportunity. The increased destructiveness of war, through the application of science to the business of killing, is ever-present to the popular imagination: yet its present scope and future possibilities are but vaguely realized. Doctor Hall, whose researches have extended into the trenches as well as the laboratory, will explain the scientist's part in any future conflict...