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Word: explaining (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...done." The President's remark may have been meant to raise hopes. What it did was raise questions. Was there "some new sceneshifting going on behind the Iron Curtain? Who were the "certain leaders" in Russia who wanted to end the Cold war? The President did not explain in his speech and he would not clarify it later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENTCY: Lunch with the Boys | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...science, Mather continued. While security is necessary in certain scientific research it is also important to make the distinction between free thought and disloyalty. Mather presented, as an example of the hysteria prevailing in the scientific world, the case of a lady scientist who was called upon to explain the presence of a Paul Robeson record album in her room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fears Threaten Liberty--Mather | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

According to Princeton officials, however, the new program does not make it any easier for a student to earn his degree. Most students who failed under the old system will also fall under the new one, they explain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Failing Tigers Get New Life | 1/7/1949 | See Source »

Fairbank will explain why most Chinese prefer peace even though it means Communism in his talk "Which Way In China...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fairbank to Talk On China Future | 1/7/1949 | See Source »

Just Feminine Meanness. The session convened again at 9:56 with an opposition member immediately taking the floor to announce with righteous illogic: "I've just been informed the Finance Minister is drunk in the Diet Building. I demand he be called before this session to explain the budget bill." After seven more minutes of bedlam, the house recessed again, to reopen at 10:23 with embarrassed Premier Shigeru Yoshida himself manfully mounting the rostrum to apologize for Izumiyama's inability to be present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Love & the Budget | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

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