Word: explains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Continuing his testimony before the Senate Committee, Lobbyist Smith revealed that during August 1935, three Senators and 50 Representatives had attended his Georgetown parties. Thereupon his onetime guests began to stampede before the Senate committee to explain and extenuate their presence at the 38th Street house. Montana's Senator James E. Murray admitted he was "laboring under the delusion that Smith was a Congressman." Washington's Representative Martin Smith woefully complained: "I certainly hope we'll do something to curb the activities of these lobbyists. There ought to be some way of identifying them." Utah...
...poet will discuss the conditions in our American colleges which are most congenial to artists living in university communities; he will explain the effect that such conditions have on the development of skill and prowess in creative work...
...Government of the U.S.S.R. during the past decade has been clearly no better than that of a committee. Our inference is that it has been, in fact, the very opposite of a dictatorship. It has been, as it still is, government by whole series of committees." They explain Stalin's prominence thus: Lenin's death left a fearful hole; "some new personality had to be produced for the hundred and sixty millions to revere." Trotsky was considered too dangerous, so Stalin was chosen, deliberately propagandized into the nation's hero. While they admit that Stalin...
...Frost will discuss chiefly the third class this evening, and will attempt to explain whether wisdom expressed in one's writing is the quality most to be desired in a person who produces creative literature...
Thus the body of science is like a pyramid. The broad base rests on sense impressions. As one proceeds farther & farther from sense impressions, fewer & fewer systems are necessary to explain Nature, since each system explains more. Thus mechanics and heat are merged when heat is revealed as molecular motion. But this is far from the pyramid's base; a hand dipped in hot water feels heat, not motion. The apex of the pyramid, not yet reached, would be a single system containing the terms necessary to describe all phenomena...