Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your Aug. 2 Miscellany item about Al G. Moriarty (police had been looking for him for two years, found and arrested him when he announced his candidacy for the general assembly) failed to explain Moriarty's offense: since May 1946 he had received 14 tickets for illegal parking and had ignored them all. Having now paid a fine of $42, he is free and clear to pursue his political career...
Enough's Enough. In Milwaukee, police asked James Beard to explain how he came to be stalking down the street with a telephone cord and receiver hanging around his neck, learned that Beard had been given one wrong number too many...
...series of lectures at Harvard in 1940 he tried to explain what he means: "The more art is controlled, limited, worked over, the more it is free . . . The Dionysian elements which set the imagination of the artist in motion . . . must be properly subjugated before they intoxicate us, and must finally be made to submit to the law: Apollo demands...
...current issue of Physics Today, Dr. George Gamow tells why he thinks that neutrinos are as real as electrons or protons. Physicists, he says, invented neutrinos because they needed something to explain why electrons, shot out of the same atomic nuclei under the same conditions, do not all have the same energy. One way to account for this discrepancy is to imagine a very small, uncharged particle that departs at the same time as the electron, carrying with it some of the energy...
...world, a little uncertain whether to expect fun or disaster, eagerly watched another one of those strange American tribal customs-the Republican National Convention. A corps of 45 foreign correspondents tried its baffled best to explain the proceedings to the folks back home. Wrote the Manchester Guardian's Alistair Cooke: "The art of conveying to a European audience the rules of the convention game eludes us all. Like baseball or the twelve-bar blues, it is seemingly too fluid a thing to be grasped...