Word: explains
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Saturday was as complete an anti-climax to the work of the eleven against the Chicago Athletic Club, as one could very well imagine. To be sure the game was won, but when one reviews in his mind the general drift of the play, he finds it hard to explain why Amherst did not keep on scoring and win the game. The only possible reason that such did not happen was owing to Harvard's better endurance and the individual work of a few men. Amherst's defensive work was stronger than Harvard's, their aggressive play was more effective...
...Carnegie Co. violated the workingmen's rights by an arbitrary reduction of wages. - (a). When the Co. was prosperous owing to new machinery: Pub. Opinion, July 9. (b). It refused to explain its actions: No. Amer., p. 361. (c). It did not allow the workmen any voice in the matter Ibid p. 371. (d). It refused arbitration: Ibid...
...athletics, it is of the greatest importance that those who are to uphold their college and spread her influence in different parts of the country should above all things understand the ground which Harvard is treading. If, for example, the Athletic Committee could have had a chance to explain itself to the graduates as it did to the college in a recent college conference, Harvard would have been saved a great deal of that needless and hurtful criticism of her athletics which has arisen out of pure ignorance of the true state of things...
...impulsiveness attached to the little French girl that is very interesting and makes one wish that the authoress would try her hand oftener at such sketches. "Imaginative" by John Cummings is not up to the usual standard of the writer's former articles. He attempts to define and explain the distinction between fancy and imagination, and considering the difficulty of the undertaking he succeeds fairly well, though he offers nothing new. Two communications from Oxford by C. H. C. Wright and Louis Dyer throw an interesting light on affairs there and are valuable for that reason. The former gives...
History begins whenever there is a record that tends to explain man in the relations I've indicated. An Indian spear head may be a record if used to explain man's social relations. Prehistoric is generally understood to refer to something before written record, but according to my definition it would refer to a time before any record...