Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doubt the policy of making loans helps explain this development," the report states. $40,000 were loaned to freshmen this year. "We believe this to be sound policy but it does add to the pressures on the Financial Aid Office and on resources for helping students," the report concluded
...easily miss the real problem: dealing with the so-called degenerative diseases, e.g., heart and artery ailments. ¶ Despite all the current emphasis on dieting, reported Harvard's Dr. Jean Mayer, doctors have had little practical success so far in developing sound reducing diets-mostly because they explain obesity simply as the result of "overeating" and let it go at that. Moreover, the value of regular exercise is ignored, due to a popular misconception that physical activity leads only to more eating, more calories. Required before doctors can accurately diagnose and prescribe: a system of recognizing various types...
...expression and lack of announcer's glibness, Sullivan does the sort of job that makes any sponsor swoon with joy. He spends much of his offscreen time racing around the nation on the dedicated work of selling Lincolns and Mercurys. He addresses regional meetings of auto dealers ("I explain that we're all part of a team'') and will show up in Portland. Ore., for its Rose Festival or Memphis for the crowning of the Cotton Queen. Wherever he goes he is accompanied by a glistening motorcade of Lincolns and Mercurys. In Houston, Sullivan agreed...
...details were wonderfully convincing. "There's a difference," Shahn would explain, "between the way a $12 coat wrinkles and the way a $75 coat wrinkles." He used a camera to record hundreds of such differences, then translated them into the sparse, nervous lines that are his trademark. But for years his main business was simply to protest evils and inequities. Shahn made his messages so plain that many of them were converted into posters by the addition of a slogan. During World War II Shahn became a poster artist for the Government, later put the horror and ruin...
Collector Dale says he visited Dali's latest show with "no idea of buying a Dali," found himself "bowled over" by an impressive, 6-ft.-tall painting of the Crucifixion. Says Dale: "I can't explain it except in one way-when it hits me, it hits me hard. It is a very honest picture, very great." Dale decided to buy it, reportedly paid about...