Word: explains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anyone who has had to look into the eager, happy faces of anxious relatives and patients who have just read that streptomycin is practically a sure cure for tuberculosis, explain as gently as possible that the wonder drug has its limitations and is unsuitable for their particular sufferer, and watch hope change into sickening despair, can attest to the damage done by overenthusiastic writing on such topics...
...completely convinced of the feasibility of Miss Geweke's plan (which I have heard her and her committee explain at several classical association meetings), but I do think Professor Spackman is most unfair...
...meeting, varsity and freshmen coaches and William J. Bingham '16, head of the Harvard Athletic Association, will explain to the Class of 1952 the various openings in competitive college athletics...
Last week her column reappeared with the byline shortened from "Austine Cassini" to just plain "Austine." As the Times-Herald did not bother to explain, Austine ("Bootsie") Cassini had married William Randolph Hearst Jr.-and she did not think she should trade on his name...
...York City's Board of Education issued a special pamphlet. A parent, the pamphlet said, should explain to a child that school would not be so bad. "Tell him ... he will draw, sing, play games . . . He will make many new friends . . . School will be an enjoyable . . . experience...