Word: explains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worth $1,410,000,000) alone. Instead the Japanese marched southward, and last week Britain's diplomatic chickens of 1932 had come home to roost. Small comfort it was to the British that outside their Tientsin Concession the Japanese military set up a loudspeaker system to "explain" their action to English-speaking passersby. Said the plaintive voice through the loudspeaker: "We are so sorry to be giving you lots of trouble...
...they may become in the face of wars and panics and clashing ideologies, there is still enough energy left in them for just a little tumult. Harvard's seniors are still interested in Harvard, and they are willing to disturb the mellow mood of returning alumni in order to explain that there are other changes at Harvard besides the House system, and that they are not all to the good...
...second storm blew up in the U. S. press when Lindbergh went to Germany after the Munich agreement and was decorated by Field Marshal Hermann Göring with the Order of the German Eagle. Friends tried to explain that the decoration was forced on him and he could not gracefully refuse. But that was not the case. He knew that he was to receive some honor, requested that there be no ceremony. At a dinner party one evening, Marshal Göring, the last guest to arrive, gave Lindbergh the medal in a case, saying simply, "By order...
...middle-aged man who was listed as Herr Bennett Nash. Herr Nash, a lonely fellow, had spent most of the crossing in the ship's bar drinking whiskey neat. Surrounded by reporters and photographers, he smiled nervously, praised the skyline in guttural English, tried to explain that he was in the U. S. to pay a debt. Before he could finish his explanation Army officers whisked him away to forbidding old Castle William on Governor's Island, where he was given a pair of olive-drab dungarees to replace his double-breasted suit. For the second time...
...years an adviser to parents of prep school children, Porter Sargent '96 undertook yesterday to explain the reason for the large percentage of prep school cram patrons...