Word: explaining
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...British and French surveys, the question was put only to persons who had heard of Western Union. This may partially explain the lower number of "undecideds" in those countries...
...entire Freshman class will gather in Sanders Theatre this morning at 9 o'clock to hear Erwin N. Griswold, Dean of the Law School, Frederick L. Hisaw, professor of Zoology, and Delmar Leighton, Dean of Freshmen, explain the mysteries of choosing a field of concentration...
...increase in room rent has forced three men to decide to live at home as the only solution to the searing cost of residence. Besides, they explain, "food has something to do with...
...Forrestal program also included universal military training, which would supply a constant pool of 850,000 men at least partially trained. Forrestal did not explain how U.M.T. would be separated from selective service. Presumably U.M.T. would catch the 18-year-olds...
People who regard science with suspicion have always celebrated such familiar, explainable events as "mysteries" or "miracles." Charles Fort, who died in 1932, made a career of it. For 26 years Fort puttered in the British Museum and the New York Public Library, collecting phenomena which "science cannot explain" (he had a special fondness for unusual objects falling from the sky). He insisted that the earth was surrounded by a gelatinous shell, in which the stars were holes. Rains of fish, frogs and "blood" (water containing reddish dust particles) were brought down to earth from the shell by "teleportation...