Word: explains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first 15-minute speech to an unhurried introduction to his topic, happily concluded: "I thank you, fellow members of Congress, for your attention." His seven remaining talks will include discussions on The World Panic and the Disasters Following, The Remedy for Depressions, What Is Inflation? "I want to explain this Depression," says conscientious Finly H. Gray, "and at the close of the session you can't get enough time to thoroughly discuss a question...
Kaspar has none of the bashfulness of a Milquetoast. When he is complimented on speaking English well, he explains: "I picked it up on my travels." His English had its stiffest test when, on his way back from an Australian tour, he was asked to explain skating to a Ceylon reporter who had never seen ice except in highballs...
...appears too that the Biology Laboratory receives a large share of wooly cloth. But officials hastened to explain that the soft texture 0 the diapers make them ideal for the prosaic purpose of polishing glass ware...
After hearing Professor Dirk J. Stuick, of M.I.T. explain the relation of Marxism to science, the John Reed Society broke wide open just as compromise was in sight on allowing non-Marxist talks to be heard...
Railroad stocks and bonds slumped. Meanwhile, various ICC members sought to explain their attitude. Only Commissioner Charles D. Mahaffie contended that the increase was not large enough. The other commissioners agreed with outspoken Joseph Eastman, onetime Coordinator of Transportation, who remarked: "It is unnecessary to say that an increase in railroad rates cannot furnish an adequate answer to our transportation problem. At best it is only a palliative and whether it is even that remains to be seen...