Word: explains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin, U. S. Ambassador Hugh Wilson called on Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop to explain in diplomatic language that German spying, though stupid and relatively fruitless, is annoying and insulting...
Tony Fokker might have gone on to explain that he had his eye on a shipbuilding business to replace a U. S. aircraft career that ended when the Department of Commerce grounded his transport planes after the mysterious Rockne crash (TIME, April 6, 1931). But at that point a telephone extension buzzed. He caught up the receiver. From across 3,500 miles of sea came a familiar voice. "Hello, momma," boomed Fokker happily, and in mingled English and Dutch described to his mother in Holland the scene on New York City's Harlem...
Eduard, save up your pence, For Adolf soon will be over the fence. So runs the insolent jingle which Nazi sympathizers among Czechoslovakia's German minority sporadically plaster on Czech frontier barriers. No one need explain to worried Czechs that Eduard is their president, Eduard Benes (pronounced Benesh), that Adolf is their neighbor, Hitler, that the fence is a cup-shaped chain of mountains along the Czech-German border, a chain about the height of Vermont's Green Mountains. Since the Sixth Century this fence has served as a barrier against the eastward push of Teutonic tribes...
...experts still rely on their projected coaxial cables to bring television to the north of England, explain that Ormesby Bank reception was possible only because of its 700-ft. elevation, high mast, ideal atmospheric conditions. BBC can guarantee none of these reception assets to all Yorkshiremen...
...least of Dr. Wood's fun has been exposing sundry scientific quacks and frauds. Most celebrated case: about 35 years ago, the scientific world was excited by the reported discovery of a mysterious radiation, called "N-rays," by a certain Professor Blondlot of France. Professor Blondlot could not explain the source of the "N-rays'' but he declared that if they were passed through a prism they would cause an electric spark to brighten visibly...