Word: explains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this instance the Overseers did not consent that the Corporation should proceed to an election until February 25. They appointed a committee to confer with the Corporation about the definition of the president's duties and continued an inconclusive discussion of that question. It is difficult to explain this delay of nearly five months except on the theory that the Overseers were disturbed by a sense of impending change and a feeling of uncertainty. Questions of policy were implicitly bound up with the selection of the new president, and it could certainly be said that the issues were numerous...
...constitute a history of things American, but it is not a history of the American people. . . and it fails to convince." America, says Professor Fay, requires an historian like Turner. His country "interested him so profoundly, he had tried so hard to understand her, to perceive her, and to explain her, that in the process he reached a plane of moral nobility and intellectual clarity higher than that on which his contemporaries take their stand...
...mayor of Cincinnati, will speak this afternoon at 4 o'clock in Emerson D on "Local Government in the United States, a Challenge and an Opportunity." Having traced the movement for reform in Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio to 1923 in his first lecture given Monday, Mr. Seasongood will explain this afternoon the political regeneration of this locality as an example of successful reform in local government...
...colleges reveals that the answer to the decline in attendance at football games lies somewhere in between these two views. It seems a far cry to say that interest is falling so rapidly that the end of football is near at hand, but yet it is also hard to explain the great drop in gate receipts this year solely on the grounds of depression or even very largely on these grounds. Athletic associations all over the country report much greater drops in attendance this year over that of last year than were noted in the attendance last year over that...
...those emanations is unknown. Sir William thinks that they are chemical individuals, that "their physiological activity must be prodigious, equaling or even exceeding that of snake venom. . . . Of what use is this power? Why can it so influence its fellow vegetables? In that lies the puzzle." Perhaps the emanations explain what warehousers of apples have known for a long time, "that there is a kind of communal life, a herd quality, in apples when stored together. They tend to and. indeed, they do ripen at much the same rate...