Word: explains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...final part of the examination was a list of 13 topics from various works, five of which the student was to explain and discuss...
Eyes privileged to glimpse the advance proofs, last week, reported that the book is a voluminous answer to a possible hypothetical woman who asked Mr. Shaw to "explain Socialism." From this point of departure he launches into a potpourri of Shaviana keynoted by such statements as the following: The first principle of Socialism is equal income for all. . . . Every other system for distribution of wealth is unjust and illogical. . . . The Socialist experiment failed in Russia because the people were not prepared for it. ... England is today more communist than Soviet Russia...
...mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope." Sometimes you do it twice or thrice in a single issue. If I see it again, I'll scream. No one hates the Roman Pope more than I do, but this constant repetition is getting nerve-wrecking. If you must explain this not wholly unique hobby of Senator Heflin's, whenever you write his name, for God's sake sit down and compose fifty or more variations of the phrase ". . . who mortally (I can't bear to write it) . . ." and then schedule them for successive mentions of Heflin...
Secretary Wilbur had asked the Court to reconsider its verdict of "unfit" on Admiral Brumby. Given an opportunity to explain himself, Admiral Brumby redescribed his conduct and Secretary Wilbur found it entirely "commendable." In the main, Admiral Brumby seemed to have conferred intelligently with his more technically expert subordinates and ordered what all agreed was best, including the delay in attaching airlines to the wreck's "ears." Moreover, said Secretary Wilbur, the Brumby record of 31 years in the Navy was so splendid as to overcome whatever "errors or oversight or failures" could be justly charged against...
...explain this country's wealth, Mr. Mazur adduces the well-known causes--natural resources, large-scale production, efficient marketing and distribution...