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Word: explains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loud speaker system, installed in the Stadium last fall, will be used to explain the purpose of the various drills and to call out the names of those players already familiar to followers of Crimson football...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GAFFNEY LEADS SQUAD IN EXHIBITION TODAY | 9/17/1936 | See Source »

...will be Mason Rogers, of the Dewey and Almy Chemical Company, whose chosen title is "Up in the Air--Exploring the Stratosphere with Instrument Carrying Balloons." Charles F. Brooks '11, Director of the Blue Hill Observatory, will speak on the meteorological aspect of such experiments, K. O. Lange will explain and demonstrate the radio meteorograph, and A. E. Bent will talk on radio. Other speakers will include Robert Ridgway, prominent civil engineer of New York; Lewis J. Johnson, Professor of Civil Engineering; and R. H. Watson, vice-president of United States Steel and president of the Society...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MANY EVENTS FILL TODAY | 9/17/1936 | See Source »

...Bring your Marx." It can only be done by creating an atmosphere in which everything that man has ever thought upon any given subject, is shown in its growth and evolution and is discussed without prejudice or emotion as the mathematician will discuss his formulas or the chemist will explain his mysterious concoctions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hendrik Wiltem Van Loon Sees Future Harvard as Great Fortress of Learning | 9/16/1936 | See Source »

...will pass on a theorem to the physicist, who uses it and passes it on to the chemist, who in turn uses it and passes it on to the biologist. Ultimately, the cure of a disease may result. . . . Sir Isaac Newton to a large extent worked on calculus to explain some phases of astronomy, but his findings now-more than 250 years later-are applied to calculating width of a brake lining to stop a motor car of a certain size at a certain speed at a given time."- Professor Mark Hoyt Ingraham, University of Wisconsin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Highbrows at Harvard | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...Cartan finds that some of the "vectors" with which Relativists play have a dual existence-in distorted Einstein space and in undistorted Euclidean space. These amphibian vectors may be links between cosmos and microcosmos. In Dr. Cartan's audience reporters could not find a single mathematician who could explain his method in layman's language. Dr. Cartan tried himself, conscientiously, through an interpreter. Presently all hands admitted defeat, disbanded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Highbrows at Harvard | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

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