Word: explains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Publicly to against expound himself and last week denounce the "plot"against himself last week Josef Stalin chose his Right-Hand-Man-Of-The-Moment, Comrade Lazar Kaganovitch. Ingenious, this henchman found the perfect metaphor with which to explain away major breaks in the Five-Year Plan and heap all praise upon Dictator Stalin. Keynoted Comrade Kaganovitch: ". . . Why wail over broken eggs when we are trying to make an omelette...
Haled into a Los Angeles court to explain a debt of $292.10, huge Jess Willard, onetime heavyweight boxing champion, told a municipal referee that he was working for about $15 a week as a bouncer in a meat market he once owned. He had himself photographed ejecting a tiny newshawk. Later he confessed: "That's all a joke about my being a bouncer. There's nothing to bounce around here except pieces of meat. I'm manager here. . . . Can't tell you my salary but it's a lot more than $15 weekly. Why that...
...matter of fact, however, this is no sudden development, but the result of a steadily growing policy of inviting criticism from men who can take an objective view of the administration of the many departments of the University. It is bromidic to explain that Harvard needs such comment, which transcends class and sectional boundaries. The more intelligent criticism and suggestion the University can receive from interested, enlightened observers, the more it can grow in service...
...article by Wood will contain a complete analysis with his own impressions of the plays as executed by the two teams. In addition to the game analysis, Wood will attempt to explain the causes of the one team's winning and the other team's losing the game...
...that he has no interest in the vague and changing things which men call laws: the music of the spheres, and the glamour of the dusty night-court alike bewitch him. But the laws that govern men are most enticing. Horoscopes, new as they may be to Harvard, perhaps explain as well why Thou art Thou, as do the addled Viennese hiero-phants. Be that as it may, the rise of the Corsican, the fall of the Hapsburgs, even the tale of a Freshman, all are food to the Vagabond...