Word: explains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...explain it,' said the professor. 'In the first place, they're all packed in. They communicate their impulses to one another. They are high-school adolescents and they have been released from school after the midyear examinations, and they are all single and unattached, and they are all maturing sexually, and they have no regular biological outlets for their drives. . . " The darkened theatre shuts out inhibitory reality, and all their minds are focused on one thing. . . . They do sound like goats, don't they...
Meantime, in his exuberant enthusiasm the President has put his foot in several hornets' nests. A large part of his time last week was spent in explaining that he did not mean what he had said. He had to tell the Advisory Council not to take too seriously the trust-busting speeches of Harold Ickes and Robert Jackson. He had to explain that he had no intention of reviving NRA evenin a modified form. When his talk of a supercommittee on co-operacy aroused the jealousy of Congressmen and the suspicions of his liberal advisers, he countered with...
...good-looking woman osteopath of Miami tossed the subject of "mercy deaths" into the news again last week by poisoning her incurably sick daughter Barbara and then trying to kill herself. In a typical note Dr. Frances A. Tuttle tried to explain: "Barbara is sick. . . . I don't want her to stay behind and suffer. . . . I am too tired and sick to hold...
...Frank Robinson, now 52, is frank to admit, such a story "makes me sound nuts." Nevertheless he tells it to explain the founding of Psychiana, a non-Christian (but godly), mail-order religion which has enrolled between 500,000 and 600,000 people in 67 countries, and which is probably the only faith in the world which guarantees "money back if you are not satisfied." As a mail-order gospel, propagated by advertising (in 400 newspapers, 50 magazines), Psychiana passed a milestone last week when Founder Robinson motored from Moscow to Portland, Ore., placed an order...
...apology fulfilled all the demands made by the U. S., Secretary Hull quickly accepted it, merely calling attention to this difference of opinion in his reply. The State Department's note presumably closed the incident but made it apparent that a repetition might be much less easy to explain away. Secretary Hull also adroitly reminded Japan that, for its account of the "origins, causes and circumstances of the incident," the U. S. Government "relies on the report of findings of the court of enquiry of the United States Navy...