Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sciences that became important before it knew what it was doing. The old, half-magician alchemists of the Middle Ages were acquainted with many useful compounds and reactions, but they had no rational theories about them. Early chemists, dropping the magic, gradually developed general principles to explain what happened in their test tubes. The most useful of these was the concept of "chemical bonds": the forces that make atoms stick together as the molecules that form nearly everything on earth. Though the chemists learned a lot about the bonding forces and took skillful advantage of them, they did not understand...
...when the general trend is away from the honor system, and when such systems are being reexamined and often discarded all over the country, Brown's enthusiasm may seem strange. Cammarian Club leaders explain it as another manifestation of the students' desire for a unified College spirit extending to and including studies. It has certainly been a natural by-product of the Brown renaissance...
Bender, who collapsed Oct. 30 with a gash in his chest, again refused to explain exactly how he was injured. "It happened, that's all. There has been no trouble from the University or anyone else about the matter," he said...
...rescue, of course, never came to pass, but then most of Sir Henry's plans seldom got beyond the planning stage. That helps to explain the obscurity of the man who commanded the British armies in North America from 1778 to 1782. In character also is the history of his painfully detailed labor of explanation, now published under the title The American Rebellion. Sir Henry wrote it to prove (as other historians have tried to do since) that the war was won not by "Mr. Washington" nor lost by Clinton, but thrown away by schemers in London...
...coatless Princeton freshman tried to explain why he didn't like eating in Commons. All the while he eyed the milk pitcher and bit his dixie drinking...