Word: explains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a careful check on your recent articles published under the heading Education. I must conclude that this department is somewhat inferior to the high standard of other departments of your magazine. For instance, in your issue of April 23 you take great pains to explain the sordid details of an unfortunate occurrence which might appear to greater advantage under "Crime...
...TIME, April 16, under Sport, I read an exceedingly interesting story on rugby football and the recent visit of the Cambridge team to this country. A small criticism would be that you did not explain the game sufficiently. Your few simple definitions of rugby terms were mostly definitions in ununderstandable terms of ununderstandable terms...
...went on to explain what he meant by planning-instead of giving direct cash relief to unemployed and stranded populations, set them up in occupations and surroundings where they can support themselves. "The Government is rich enough to accomplish this. We need to make these people self-sustaining. We are not going to take them by force or against their wills out of one community and transplant them to another. By using grey matter-Brain Trust or otherwise-we are going to make these experiments so attractive and successful that more people will apply than can be handled...
Boomed Lawyer Neylan: "I am very sorry that it is felt necessary to dig up old prejudices to explain this telephoto matter." He referred to rising costs of newspaper production, to the demands of labor unions and editorial guilds. Then: "My heart aches for the guilds and I think they have the best claim of anybody. But why in the name of God should the newspapers get worried about Walter Gifford [president of A. T. & T.]? Have you seen the A. T. & T. balance sheet . . .? If this plan is generally adopted none of us will have an advantage...
...name proposed for an unknown substance whose removal from living cells seems to explain anesthesia. When certain water plants are soaked in distilled water their cells become unable to transmit stimuli, apparently because "R" is dissolved out. So the effect of everyday medicinal anesthetics may be due to a removal of "R" from human cells.-Drs. J. V. Osterhout and S. E. Hill of the Rockefeller Institute...