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Word: explains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...loss to explain such conduct," he said. Ruth's manager, Miller Huggins, tried to explain that the game had begun just as Ruth was sent for. But the feature-writers feature-wrote just the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Great Sensation | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...noticed or remembered by very few voters, they are scarcely honored. Moreover, the electors of any State may be chosen by a minority of the voters of the State, yet the Presidential votes represent the entire State. Only a student of government or a thoroughly professional politician can explain what the Electoral College actually is and does, the reason being that it has been transformed from an important bit of governmental machinery to an inconspicuous, though still essential, instrument of party politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: College | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

Rested and notified, Nominee Hoover once more became the busy Beaver Man. He concluded his conferences with managers at Palo Alto and set out, via the Southwest, to explain further to the Midwest what he means to do about "the most important obligation of the next Administration"-farm relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Into Action | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

That high mob-scorning redwood, that flowingly romantic verse, that Nominee-even famed Mark Sullivan, popular political commentator, tried and failed to explain what inner relation existed between them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Luft der Freiheit | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

...Reporting the incident, the Republican New York Herald Tribune was constrained to explain: "The lower end of Wall Street is not of quite the same character as the upper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: In General | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

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