Word: explains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time to join the celebration at Grandma's cottage. The prudent pig pumps the organ for their dance. Major flaw of The Big Bad Wolf is not that it wildly distorts a well known nursery story. This is Disney license. But Disney license is not enough to explain why Frank Churchill, who scored The Three Little Pigs, was not required to compose new music for The Big Bad Wolf. The piglets still pipe the tune by which 1933 will be remembered though by now they should be as tired of it as the rest...
...mountain chains, with a deep valley between, and in one place a lofty plateau. Lieut.-Colonel Sewell had no doubt that the drowned mountains once topped large exposed land masses which might well be the hypothetical continent "Lemuria," proposed by Germany's late Naturalist Ernst Heinrich Haeckel to explain the fact that lemurs, lowest of primates, swarm in Madagascar and the Malay Islands, are scarce elsewhere. Last week as the Mabahiss prepared to wind up its cruise, the expedition's secretary in Cambridge received another report, accompanied by samples of water and ooze from depths down to five...
...hole in the property jointly owned by Miss Sarah Buzby, 70, and her sister Kate, 81. Next morning the Bell men returned with a telephone pole, made ready to sink it in the hole. Miss Sarah & Miss Kate objected. The Bell men laid down the pole, began to explain. Miss Sarah & Miss Kate sat on the pole. Stymied, the Bell men fetched a second pole, sank it while Miss Sarah & Miss Kate guarded the first. Miss Sarah sawed the second pole through in two hours, apologized to the helplessly watching Bell...
...Lewis Browne- Macmillan ($2.50). An attempt to explain how God came to choose the Jews, by one of them...
...long run the President will find himself in the difficult position of interpreter between a hostile East and West, speaking different economic language. It will be his impossible job to prove to the East that the West has the best interests of the Country at heart, and explain to the West that the Yankees are not opposed to reasonable agrarian reform. For the present, however, criticism from one section will be answered from another. The national policies can best be attacked by bodies of national representation...