Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doubt, Mrs. Knight must belong to the school that believes our ancestors were apes (if Christ is a legend, what else can you believe?), that our world came into being from revolving gaseous matter. Now if she could explain who put the swirling gas into existence, I might discover a grain of truth in her fantastic statements...
...André Warnod: "It is amazing to see the prescience which seems to govern all these pictures, still lifes as well as landscapes." Said Les Nouvelles Litteraires: ". . . Prodigious. [The] designs show authority and the palette is astonishingly rich." Said the weekly Carrefour: "Our theorists will find it difficult to explain this phenomenon." The phenomenon was Artist Thierry Vaubourgoin, a bright-eyed, straw-haired youngster of eleven...
...show's great weakness-which puts Pennsylvania's rusticities miles behind Oklahoma !'s-is its uninspired score. This ack of musical verve-there isn't too much dancing, either-helps explain why Plain and Fancy has a lot of sociological charm but very little social gaiety; why it smells of apples that seem uniformly destined for pie rather than cider...
...nonchalantly out of the room for a smoke and then sprint for the rendez-vous, exam in hand. An experienced tutor could easily analyze an examination in a few minutes and deliver a quick lecture on the best answers. The tutorial group would then march to the examination hall, explain that they had slightly overslept, and demand to be admitted. Thus some of the University's present time limits on entering and leaving have more logic behind them than many students realize...
...Government 135, "Party Government in the U.S.," V. O. Key tries to explain what all the shouting every four years is about. Pressure groups also come in for their share of attention in Littauer Auditorium...