Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many figures. Prepared under the President's personal supervision, it details to Congress, which is under a moral but not legal obligation to follow it, the estimated sums of money required to operate the Government. U. S. officials appear before the House Appropriations Committee-in secret session-to explain and justify their cash allotments. Any such official who dares ask Congress for more money than the Budget allows him violates the Budget Law and is subject to instant dismissal by the President...
Lawyers in framing punitive statutes based them on the medical knowledge of the period in which they were framed. Medical men are constantly revising their theories and opinions and "since the law cannot change with the same flexibility, doctors must first agree among themselves and then explain themselves to the lawyers," if they want to correct and cure incorrigibles.-Dr. David Kennedy Henderson, University of Glasgow...
...principal number which Maier will play in his concert at the Union is the "Krazy Kat Ballet" by the American composer, John Alden Carpenter '97, honorary A.M. '22. Maier will explain the high points of the ballet during the actual playing. His program, which is of an unusual sort, will include the following pieces: I To an Old White Pine Macdowell Variations Mozart Prelude Glierre Perpetual Motion Poulenc Rush Hour in Hong Kong Chasins Two Cuban Dances Cervantes The Crapshooters Dance Lane On Wings of Song Mendelssohn-Liszt La Campanella Paganini-Liszt II Krazy Kat Ballet John Alden Carpenter
...scene for the annual banquet of the New England Association of Phillips Exeter Academy Alumni this evening at 6.30 o'clock. Movies of the Harvard-Yale game of this year are to be shown; E. L. Casey '17, Harvard backfield coach, will be on hand to explain the Crimson plays, and Charles Comer-ford, who coached the Yale ends this year, is to speak about the Eli plays...
Instantly the Commons was in such pandemonium as might be caused in Congress by barely hinting that the U. S. cannot prosper without cutting the interest rate on Liberty Bonds. "Explain! Explain!" roared Conservatives at pallid, crippled Chancellor Snowden; but for two whole days he maintained impassive silence. Horrid inference: the avowedly Socialist Labor Cabinet harbors hopes of someday tampering even with sacrosanct War Bonds...