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Word: explains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike most publications giving this news, you took occasion to effectively explain in a footnote that the National Life Insurance Co. of Montpelier, Vt., was in no way involved in this receivership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 27, 1933 | 11/27/1933 | See Source »

...Although only four years old, the New Indoor Athletic Building had become inadequate for the present needs of the University," said Norman W. Fradd, the director of that building. Mr. Fradd did not explain further in what way facilities had proven insufficient...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fradd Speaks | 11/22/1933 | See Source »

...understand the Roosevelt plan. "Nor does Mr. Roosevelt. "So please don't ask me to explain it. "Ask the Brainstorm Trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Nov. 20, 1933 | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

...that the father of the servant girl's unborn child is her philandering husband. Good study of lower middle-class psychology is the scene in which the architect tries to get the servant out of the room before Nazimova wakes up, while the girl insists on staying to explain that she had not known her lover was Nazimova's husband. The knowledge nearly kills the sick woman but the girl goes away satisfied with herself. All this is finally geared to prove that all men are cads when cast as girls' dream heroes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 20, 1933 | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

...William Samuel Fitzpatrick, chairman of Prairie Oil, then a Sinclair competitor but later merged, was paid $300,000 out of the pool's profits although he had no interest, Mr. Cutten could not explain. "All we know, then," remarked Inquisitor Pecora, exasperated, "is that it wasn't made at Christmas time, so it couldn't have been a Christmas gift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Senate Revelations 5:4 | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

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