Word: explains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late Charles Fort, born in Albany in 1874, was a short story writer who developed a hobby into a passion. He became a contumacious heckler of science. For 23 years he grubbed in libraries and museums for reports of curious phenomena which science could not explain, made bales of notes from which he compiled chaotic books such as Wild Talents, The Book of the Damned, Lo! New Lands. Charles Fort demanded that science explain why statues shed blood, why frogs and periwinkles fall to earth in rainstorms, why eels appear in landlocked water. What about the swan which mysteriously appeared...
...Will someone please explain to a bewildered layman what all this has to do with education?" asks Mr. Tunis in conclusion. "No wonder President Hutchins of Chicago observes that the American colleges today offer fresh air, green grass, good food and exercise, exactly the same as the resort hotels...
...explain Dave Smart's letting the public in on his company, some observers concluded that new money was needed to finance a projected new magazine, of which only the name, Ken, and the editor, Ernest Hemingway, are known details. But Tide, smart advertising trade magazine, concluded: ". . . David A. Smart and William H. Weintraub, as far as anyone could tell, were merely realizing some well-earned $1,400,000 from the coffers of their company...
...kept his own copy out of the issue on every opportunity. For once an author's apologetic foreword ("How I ever came to write and collect the pieces in this book must remain an impressive mystery. Why the publisher is printing them is something he will have to explain to his God") is to be believed. Best pieces in his book, Bed of Neuroses, are the parodies. Best parodies: "Time . . . Fortune . . . Life . . . Luce," "Death in the Rumble Seat" (on Hemingway...
...managed to scratch up $8,500,000. From o.ther sources a total of $21,000,000 was finally obtained. In Denver, at the annual convention of the Western Association of State Game & Fish Commissioners, Ira Noel Gabrielson, rotund present chief of the Survey, hefted himself to his feet to explain what had happened since his bureau took the money, largely drawn from relief and work-making budgets, and really moved into action...