Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lecture in Science A-17, "The Astronomical Perspective," Professor of Astronomy and the History of Science Owen J. Gingerich spent about 40 minutes at tempting to explain the principles of escape velocity. But unlike most teachers Gingerich felt he had to illustrate the topic of the day. So he concluded his lecture by zooming out of Science Center D aboard a homemade rocket...
Apparently, Rosovsky does not tell his students "the most important thing," and Hershbach must explain that billions of East Asians have cultivated rice for thousands of years because rice doesn't deplete soil nutrients...
What kind of impression does all this make? On the one hand, that of some kind of confusion and uncertainty in Washington. The only way I can explain this is anxiety lest our initiatives should wreck the version of the Soviet Union being the "focus of evil" and the source of universal danger, which in fact underlies the entire arms race policy. On the other hand, there is an impression of a shortage of responsibility for the destinies of the world. And this, frankly speaking, gives rise again and again to the question whether it is at all possible...
Believers usually explain that they are attracted to old-time Bible faith by the certainty of its answers to religious questions. They profess its power to make life meaningful and wholesome, to provide clear moral guidance and to offer a sense of spiritual redemption through Jesus Christ. "People are hungering for truth," says Contractor Calvin Beeler, who worships at a small Berean Baptist church near Charlottesville, Va. Baptist Susan Baker of Del City, Okla., who was widowed this year at age 25, testifies that faith pulls her through her grief: "I never do feel like I'm alone...
After the pros came the amateurs, for hours and hours. "I can't explain the high," said one. "It's almost religious...