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Word: explains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Increased pressure at lower depths is a factor in keeping Dr. Scholander's arctic fish in circulation, but is not enough to explain the mystery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 11, 1954 | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

...phone and baby [roused by jets] screaming in the background . . . I learned that a woman has enough mad and enough breath saved up to make an impenetrable conversational barrier anywhere from four to six minutes after she starts. A man is a fool to try to break in . . . to explain why a jet makes noise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: On Jets & Screaming Babies | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

...your editorial "Gift Without Giver" of Oct. 7, you criticized several stands of the Combined Charities Committee. Let us explain our current policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IT'S THE SPIRIT BEHIND IT . . . | 10/8/1954 | See Source »

Paris, buzzing with rumors and guesses, waited impatiently for the tight-lipped Mendès government to explain what was really going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Eager Cop | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

...Heron is doing a specific and limited experiment, and he does not intend to speculate. But it has occurred to many observers that his technique of confusing and dimming the brain by starving it of sensation might be used, with proper modification, for darker purposes. It might explain the Communists' success in getting untrue but apparently willing "confessions" out of prisoners led into a courtroom right out of isolated cells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Twilight of the Brain | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

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