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Word: explains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...truth from a witness, establishing a fact material to the security of the U.S., is more important to the general welfare and the public as a whole than the prosecution of a single individual for his specific crime." Replied Dean Griswold: "Lawyers should be leading spokesmen in trying to explain that sometimes a lawyer who invokes the amendment may be striking a blow for freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FIFTH AMENDMENT: THE FIFTH AMENDMENT | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

Price obviously does not think that his challenge will be met. He scoffs at alleged proofs of the existence and powers of psi. "There is no plausible way to explain these details except in terms of special intelligent agents-spirits or poltergeists or whatever one wishes to call them . . . Parapsychology . . . still bears in abundance the markings of magic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Challenge to Psi | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

Pleasure Principle. In Manhattan, Alexander Johnson, 39, carrying a bag of duck eggs home on the subway as a treat for his wife, spied Salesgirl Adrienne Ardizone, 20, sitting opposite in a freshly starched dress, calmly pelted her with raw eggs, said later that he just couldn't explain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 29, 1955 | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

...emphasize that "God has just as much of the mother nature as the father nature," said the Rev. M. Madeline Southard of Topeka, Kans. at the 36th annual assembly of the American Association of Women Ministers. "Jesus, God incarnate, is so different from others who told of God and explain God because he brought forth not the masculine traits of divinity but . . . the feminine traits . . . What the world needs is an understanding of ... the feminine element...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Words & Works | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

...anywhere in the world until the United States switched to the present method around about 1925?" Bald and exaggerated as his statements were, Flesch had in a sense done the nation a favor. He had brought the extremists out into the open, and he had forced the educators to explain just why they teach as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Why Johnny Can't/Can Read | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

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