Word: explains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bermuda samples of Australian wines were stacked ready to be rushed to Manhattan. There are no Australian vintage years because, Australians eagerly explain, "the weather is so perfect that every year is the same." Anxious not to offend the King's subjects down under, the Encyclopædia Britannica puts Australian wines in their place with a maximum of tact: "The plentiful supply of cheap grape brandy makes it possible for Australia to send to England ever increasingly large quantities of fortified wines [i. e. dosed with brandy], wines which being rich in natural grape sweetness...
...much to ask of one man. But Harvard has learned to expect great things of her presidents. She will expect him to recognize in this present instance a dangerous tendency, particularly dangerous since it attacks a youthful institution. She will expect him to take a decisive stand, and to explain his position clearly. She has not been trained to tolerate equivocation in crises...
President Conant retaliated by beginning his speech, "Ladies and Gentlemen, and Mr. Toastmaster." He went on to explain that he was a student himself; he was learning to be a college president. He claimed that he had attempted a correspondence course in "What every young college president should know," but it had been of no avail, he was still new to the job. The President told of a professor that he had met at Oxford. This professor believed that if the American college professors had as much power as it was claimed, they should move to Europe, and do nothing...
...reveals himself as a rather hacknoyed economist. His criticism is stereotyped, and shows that along with most other economists he is unable to see the woods for the trees, for he disregards the broader implications of Mr. Roosevelt's experiment. One Dane Yorke makes an entirely unsuccessful effort to explain what he calls the "mystery of retail price"; all that emerges is that for some occult reason the price of most articles is from two hundred to twenty-six hundred per cent higher in the stories than when they are landed in New York. An even more incredible hocus-pocus...
...seventeen-year-old boy when he is assured that he has contracted syphilis from a girl whom he loves. "Week-End," by Carlton Brown is an amusing description of the awakening of youth, written in an impersonal vein by a man who does not attempt to analyze and explain each movement of the characters; he presents a vivid picture of his characters and allows the reader to draw all the inane conclusions...