Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saturday were as refreshing as when first heard 50 years ago. And, still more remarkable, the enthusiasm and finer feeling of loyalty were still the same. Having gone to both universities I am puzzled why I did not decide which was better last week. By no means can I explain it. Yet I did understand how each band and each massed group of singers reciprocated with an alternating courtesy of silence while the others were doing their stunts. --Ralph M. Harper...
Colorado's brainy Republican Senator Eugene Millikin sat, hands clasped limply, looking rather glum, and listened to testimony before the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee in Washington. His bald pate was partly mantled by a neatly folded handkerchief, which Millikin did not bother to explain. But two days later, he landed in a hospital with a bad head cold...
George Gobel's sudden TV popularity is as baffling as a common cold: everybody gets it, but nobody can explain it. A mild-voiced, crewcut, anonymous sort of a man, he says: "The trouble with me is, people don't remember who I am. I guess I don't make a good impression. When I go to a party, nobody says hello; but when I leave, everybody says goodbye...
Avery said that Montgomery Ward's records show nothing like the 500,000 shares of stock that Wolfson claims to own. Then he went on to explain just how profitable his management was. He was so conservative, he said, dragging out charts, because history has shown that a serious depression has followed every major war except World War II. "Somebody's holding this thing up," he said. Besides, construction costs have zoomed, making it uneconomical to expand. When the depression comes, said he, Ward's will expand. Meanwhile, Ward's has no debts, and assets...
After the Fact. In Boston, Record Photographer Morris Ostroff was assigned to get pictures of a pet cat and squirrel that ate, played and slept together, returned without the photos to explain that the cat had just eaten the squirrel...