Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Cancer Society's Statistician Edward Cuyler Hammond rose at the gavel to explain what kinds of smokers get the most cases of lung cancer, and to discuss whether it does any good to quit. He and Assistant Daniel Horn drew from impressive data: the smoking and life histories of 188,078 men interviewed in 1952, and watched ever since. By the end of last October, 8,105 had died-285 from apparent lung cancer...
...NATO's General Gruenther approved the latest shift of a French division, a reporter wanted to know? Premier Edgar Faure thrust the question aside. "All the world must understand," he said as if to explain, "that for us, priority must be given to Algeria...
...specific reason has yet been found to explain why two lots of vaccine made by California's Cutter Laboratories should have touched off polio infections in so many cases (69 at week's end), but Dr. Sebrell went...
...himself in coffee and cakes he also had to run a gymnasium that catered to hopeful fist fighters. (No spitting on the floor, put cigar butts in cuspidors.) There he developed a surefire system for picking winners. "Their built don't matter so much," Bobby Gleason liked to explain. "What they gotta be if they want to get along in this racket is a little stupid...
...behind their curtain of secrecy, military rockets have the same troubles-troubles that explain the notorious slowness of guided missile development...