Word: explains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cryptic Sirs: ...Finally I wish that you would explain the meaning of the rather cryptic ANNOUNCEMENT which now seems to appear on your letter page each week. Does this mean that you have moved your editorial department away from Cleveland? I surely hope not.... Louise Barker Mrs. B. Barker) Cleveland, Ohio...
...this sort of item which I most often have to "censor" out of TIME. Take, for example, your item about how the Prime Minister of Japan procured an heir* (TIME, Aug. 15). You cannot imagine how impossible it would have been of me to explain to my group of children why that sort of thing is wrong in the United States and yet right in Japan. Their little minds would not grasp the distinction, obvious though it is ; and so I appeal to you to strike all such stories out of TIME. Will you? Otherwise I cannot promise to continue...
...Miss) MARY FAIRFAX Chicago, Ill. Let not Teacher Fairfax continue to "censor" from TIME such truth ful items as that to which she takes exception, but rather explain with patience the distinction, ob vious though...
...ingenious deduction emanated from Oxford to explain the frequency of discoveries of old Roman coins. The explanation: In Roman garments there were no pockets, only loose folds. Coins, brooches, studs, gems, girdles dropped out easily...
...people against adopting the dietary recommendations of those without real scientific standing in the community. Some of the advocates of freak diets are sincere, but are, themselves, deluded. Others are fakers. ... If the deductions of many food faddists, accepted as facts, were really operative, it would be difficult to explain how the human race has survived...