Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...explain the General Education proposals and to parry the barbs of the disappointed Radcliffe girls, Dean Buck, chairman of the General Education Committee, will address a Radcliffe mass meeting tomorrow afternoon at 1 o'clock...
...Facts. The National Association of Alcoholic Beverage Importers released some dry statistics that helped explain the drought of Scotch whiskey. Imports of Scotch and other British spirits during the first half of the year totaled one million gallons v. a normal 1.9 million gallons. Outlook for the balance of the year: no improvement...
...answer [this question], the physicist must attempt to explain the two aspects of his science. There is, first, the creative intellectual activity which constantly pushes back the boundaries of our understanding of natural phenomena. Second, the industrial activity which applies the results of scientific knowledge . . . to satisfy material human needs and whimsies. The first is the science of physics proper, and the second is the side of physics which has been called the inheritance of technology. If the science of physics lags, the inheritance of technology is soon spent. In these war years, the inheritance of technology has been exploited...
...Washington, D.C., before the Advertising Club, he explained the sad state of U.S. diplomacy: "President McKinley [was] the last of a long line of great American diplomats." He told the admen that foreigners who had been ungrateful before ("Our allies never gave us credit . . .") would certainly have to do honor to the U.S. this time. Said he: "It will be impossible to explain away these victories as the victories of 1898 and 1918 were explained away, and there will never again-thank God-be a class of groveling, obsequious snobs, who will seek to be better than other Americans...
...People ask me offhand to explain to them 'all about this modern art.' They want the answer in a series of pat phrases between drinks. But . . . unless you state your thesis clearly-from the ground up, you are simply adding to the sum of confusion on the subject." So writes Minnesota-born Abstractionist Hilaire Hiler in his new book, Why Abstract? (New Directions...