Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have read with amazement your article about Rollins College, entitled "Fight for a Fortune" [TIME, Feb. 4]. ... On our own initiative, we have taken this opportunity to explain the true character of Rollins...
From knob head to lion feet, Benediction's brutal, bulbous charms were probably lost on the average layman. Most frequent questions by museumgoers: "Is it harping or scratching?" "Why has it got three legs?" If its sculptor, 54-year-old Jacques Lipchitz, had been there to explain, he would have told them that what looks like a third leg is really a simplified drapery...
...have been saying in private that anyone who thinks Russia can find the time oj energy to attack Turkey, move into the Middle East, or farther expand in eastern Europe ought to know more about the great problems and troubles Russia has on her hands at home. They then explain, sounding as if they were quoting President Mikhail Kalinin's speech (TIME, Nov. 19) to Communist Party organizers on how to meet the unrest rising from the relative luxury the Red Army saw in eastern Europe...
...head came from barren Easter Island, where the natives are at a loss to explain the great stone images, up to 60 feet high, which dot the island. They say their old king knew all about them, but he and his court scholars were carried off by Peruvian slave raiders in 1862. More explicable objects...
Life with Baby (MARCH OF TIME) attempts to explain to parents why Baby sometimes does not seem to behave like a civilized human being. Based largely on pictures shot through a so-called "one-way-vision dome" at Yale University's Clinic of Child Development (conducted by famed Dr. Arnold Gesell and staff), it shows actual examples of Baby's coming to grips with the world: at four weeks barely able to move the head, at four months gaining control of the fingers, at four years able to stick out the tongue at whoever happens to be handy...