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Word: explains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...begin to exchange letters with an equal number of French youngsters. The U. S. children will write in French, the French in English, each will correct the other. But the French Correspondance Scolaire Internationale, sponsor of this friendly and educational gesture, insisted on one restriction which Mr. Wilkins could explain only as an old French custom: French boys may write to U.S. girls, but U. S. boys may not write to French girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Old French Custom | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

...Ernest Walsh's and George Whitsett's poetry, Paul Hindemith's, Eric Satie's and Virgil Thomson's music, and lectures by Surrealists Andre Breton and Salvador Dali, Connoisseurs Thomas Dabney Mabry Jr. and Julien Levy from Columbia's Workshop to explain and illustrate surrealism. NBC counters an hour later with Roland Bradley's play about surrealism. (Sat. 8:30 p.m., Blue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Previewed: Jun. 13, 1938 | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

From the Rialto Theatre, where they are holding a convention, through Jackson Square to the spearheaded front fence of the White House, marched a mixed delegation of the Youth Committee Against War. Not waiting for police or Secret Service men to ask their business, or pausing to explain just what parts of President Roosevelt's program they considered provocative, the young men & women produced from their persons seven large cardboard placards which, hung in a row on the fence (see cut), spelled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: You Fight It | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...both valuable and well given, with a few exceptions. Since the material of the course is graphic and not ideological, the personality of the instructor does not affect the student, and courses may be judged by their titles, although lecturers vary in the esprit de vivre with which they explain things...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fields of Concentration | 6/3/1938 | See Source »

...other consideration dampened Congressional ardor for legislation like the Celler Bill. N. A. B.'s President Mark Foster Ethridge acutely observed that the State Department would find it easier to explain embarrassing statements on international broadcasts if private broadcasters made them than if they were aired over a Government-owned-&-operated station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Wilt | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

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