Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...institutions. Only by returning to self alone we were told could energy be created for thought and life. The current issue focuses on the problems of autonomous existence and the dangers of rationalism to creativity. John Hurkan, in an article entitled To the End of Thought, sets out to explain our "grotesque underestimation of the true profundity of Communist thought" and finishes by making a severe attack on modern rationalism. He believes that Communism can be rejected only on emotional grounds and not rational ones, since the "Communist state is only the abstract social expression of the actual or potential...
Thus, after more than four years of stubborn official silence, bumbling and evasion, Britain's government undertook to explain how Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean had managed to work as spies for Russia within the Foreign Office and then escaped untouched...
Major Robert J. Kaufmann, commander of the batallion, said that the unit had no intention of disobeying University regulations. Members will now seek the permission of each House Master to hold informal meetings in which they which explain the advantages of the unit...
...Overseers explain that they were led to their decision to recommend expansion largely by their "sense that the problem of educating large numbers of our young people is so enormous and so important to our country that no college for whatever reason can afford to stand aside." "For whatever reason" is in itself a rather bald statement. If such attention to the problem were to mean lowering Harvard's educational standards, the Overseers are wrong. Aside from this objection, however, the Overseers' reason leads to their recommendation for expansion only with the intervening unstated premise that the only...
Nobody has been able to explain Eddie's sudden success beyond the fact that he somehow sounds much better in French than in English. French women regard him as a sort of combination Humphrey Bogart and Bing Crosby. Some of the girls dream that he will drag them by the hair to his champagne-stocked cave, while others like to weep at his middleaged, father-daughter sentiments. Most of his audiences, as a French magazine puts it, simply like to think of him as the fellow who dots the "i" in the verb aimer...