Word: explains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...electric live wire. Death to the touch! Truck drivers must learn to keep to the right of the road under pain of severe penalties. . . . ''Britain is a rich country, Italy is a poor country, but the people of poor countries have hard muscles. The only way to explain the action of the English is that they thought they had only to mass a war fleet in the Mediterranean and Premier Mussolini would take off his hat and bow in submission. "Instead he reared up like a thorough bred horse and sent his soldiers into Africa. Viva Il Duce...
Last week the U. S. Supreme Court handed down its first decision on the Securities Act of 1934. The case originated last year after J. Edward Jones, dealer in oil royalties, filed a registration statement with the Securities & Exchange Commission. Summoned to explain his facts & figures, Royalist Jones suddenly changed his mind, tried to withdraw the statement. This SEC forbade him to do (TIME, July...
...TIME TO DANCE-C. Day Lewis- Random House ($1.75). A stout attempt to explain that the new poetry movement in England is not Communistic but individualistically Socialist, with some poems by Author Day Lewis as examples...
...oldtime readers could recall one summer when the struggling sheet omitted two entire issues. Such an omission today, with The American Home one of the most valuable publishing properties in a thriving field, would be unheard of. To each of the disappointed subscribers the publisher himself hastened to explain...
...simple device of telling newshawks, before she got on a plane in Los Angeles, that when she got out at Chicago she would be naked "to advance the cause of nudism." Chicago cameramen mobbed the plane, were chagrined when Miss Cubitt emerged fully dressed. She hastened to explain that the plane's pilots and stewardess had forced her to keep her clothes on. However, she promised to be naked when she landed at Newark Airport. When the plane arrived there, the Newark vice squad was on hand and Miss Cubitt remained clothed. Nevertheless, once safe in her Manhattan hotel...