Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Where the hand of influence may be discovered is something that only an intimate knowledge of the checks and balances within the Administration could explain. If the cases against tutorial can be expounded less and less in terms of manpower, it must be explained in terms of someone's unwillingness to spend the money somewhere. The departments, almost to the last, will disclaim any direct responsibility for the cutbacks and will point to budgets that will not allow for expansion in this line. The Administration, from whom all budgets flow--albeit with departmental advice--will counter with claims that once...
Einstein's Relativity explained (to the serious students who understand it) the gravitational field which extends throughout space. But it did not explain the electromagnetic field, which is quite as big a subject. Physicists have plotted some minor electromagnetic laws. Engineers know some rules of thumb: they deal with electromagnetics in nearly every piece of electrical apparatus they touch. But no one has come forward with one acceptable theory to explain both the gravitational and the electromagnetic fields...
...mystery that can alone explain . . . our world...
Calmer seismologists say that in 50 years they may be able to explain how seismic tremors in various parts of the world are related to one another. At the moment, they do not know...
Geologists are fascinated by the difference between the two great oceans. One of the more daring, Alfred Wegener of Germany, proffered an alluring theory to explain it. According to Wegener, the interior of the earth is a thick, hot, plastic substance. The continents, in large part comparatively light granite, float on it like icebergs. Under the oceans, the earth's crust is largely basalt, which is heavier than granite and inclined to sink...