Word: explains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there has been no efficient way in the past of enabling concentrators in Biology to learn about the research in that field, the society has made arrangements for groups of them to meet with the researchers and to learn about their experiments. The research men also explain the apparatus used...
...seemed in good health with only normal prison pallor, said finally in reply to Charge d'Affaires Henderson that there was nothing the U. S. Embassy could do to make her more comfortable or assist her. "Thank you," she concluded, "I need no help." In an effort to explain why U. S. Citizen Rubens refused help against the Secret Police who have got her in jail, Walter Duranty cabled: "I know the system. It is not hypnotism but the establishment of a moral ascendancy. If that is not clear ask a psychoanalyst...
...group of Massachusetts legislators last Tuesday, he was defending the University against what has recently become a very serious threat to its financial security. Periodically a legislator comes forward with the suggestion that the schools and colleges of Massachusetts should no longer be exempt from taxation, and Harvard must explain the seemingly curious fact that an institution boasting an endowment of several millions of dollars cannot afford to pay a small amount to the community...
...happened. Drawing is not a process of clear and deliberate thinking, it seems to me a function of eyes and nerves. . . . As a centipede may not be quite aware which of its limbs it puts forth first and which is to follow, I am quite unable to explain to myself why I draw a line one way and not another. It always seems to me compelling, as if it could not possibly be different-but I never know why. Let physiologists and psychologists explain the mechanical functions and the psychic impulses that originate art. I am merely an artist...
What exotic Cecil Beaton, the London and New York society photographer, was nonetheless expected to explain last week was this microscopic lettering discovered by Columnist Walter Winchell in a small corner of a sketch Artist Beaton did for the Feb. 1 issue of Vogue: "Mr. Andrew's ball at the El Morocco brought out all the dirty Kikes in town." The sketch, bordering an article on cafe society, included several simulated newspaper pages. A tiny sheet headed Daily Mirror, which carries Mr. Winchell's column, was labeled Broadway Filth. In another small space Artist Beaton had written: "Cholly...