Word: explains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...living Sphinx of the Netherlands, crop-haired, eagle-beaked Premier Hendrik Colijn has brought Her Majesty's Government unscathed through Communist brickbat assaults and the worst of Depression only to face last week the "Dutch Nazis." For stanch old Dr. Colijn it was exquisitely embarrassing to have to explain to his strong-minded Queen, Nazi-contemptuous Wilhelmina, how it has come about that one of the Premier's own sons is a "Dutch Nazi...
...Germany Nazi stands for National Socialist. In the Netherlands N. S. B. stands for National Socialistische Beweging. Glib Dutch youths explain that their N. S. B. combines the best features of Italian Fascism and German Naziism with the drawbacks of neither and serviceable Dutch additions. Queen Wilhelmina, not to be hornswoggled, fired from his fine soft government job some years ago the founder of the movement, Dike-Builder A. A. Mussert, who had been Hydraulic Engineer of Utrecht Province...
...Asked to explain the nausea that might have caused him to lose, certainly accounted for his failure to break the record of 2:31.1 made in 1933, Runner Kelley gave reporters an amazing revelation of a marathoner's methods. Last winter Harvard scientists who had often noticed him trotting around suburban Boston, secured Runner Kelley's permission to use him for metabolism tests. Before the race, they gave him glucose pills, each said to be the equivalent of a full meal, to eat when he grew tired. Said Runner Kelley: "I swallowed 15 glucose pills between Framingham...
...nuclei to provide irritation. He wiggled out of it by supposing that in such a sea unsuspected irritations might exist. Then, once the reconstruction of matter was started, only Time and the free play of chance would be necessary to build new stars and suns and new cosmologists to explain them...
...Iceland. Eighteen bright, loosely painted landscapes made up a show at the Kleemann Galleries. Most interesting fact about them was that they were views of a land almost unknown to the U. S.-Iceland. Enthusiastically Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson wrote a long foreword for the catalog and elaborate footnotes to explain how well Artist Emile Walters had caught the brilliance, clarity and absence of perspective in the Arctic landscape...