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Word: explains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Would you please explain in what sense an S.U.I, hydraulic engineer is liberally educated? Maybe at the "Athens of the West" a hydraulic engineer is one who specializes in "draining off" practical persons and other incompetents to I.S.C...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 27, 1954 | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

...heaven is an enormous mass of carefully audited ledgers, in each of which income exactly balances outgo. As far as a balanced federal budget is concerned, Humphrey is still far from heaven. Last week, with Budget Director Rowland Hughes, he held one of his rare press conferences, to explain new budget estimates for fiscal 1955, and spent most of his time parrying pointed questions from reporters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Rain Some Day | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

...explain how the individual may attain his freedom in contemporary U.S. society, Riesman has had to examine that society anew. The result is a "construction," a way of looking at the U.S. which is more presently fruitful than older conceptions such as the class struggle or the frontier v. the seaboard. At the very least, Riesman answers the anguished city editor who cried: "What we need around this place is a new set of cliches." No mantled prophet with the last word or the definitive system, Riesman describes his notion of character as "heuristic"-and that is the word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEOPLE: Freedom--New Style | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

Mendès-France should order the government radio to explain to Frenchmen that the irritation our Western partners feel toward us is understandable. He should announce as soon as possible what his alternative solution is to the German rearmament. The Premier should say that the majority which rejected EDC is not "his" majority and that his real majority will soon be composed, not of Communists, neutralists or false nationalists, but of those loyal to European and Atlantic solidarity, who by mischance, on the EDC issue, find themselves dispersed between the two camps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

Gamy Diet. In Pittsburgh, when police asked John L. Lloyd and Marbon Crumpton to explain what they were up to, Lloyd replied innocently that he had just eaten lunch, then coughed up eight numbers slips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 13, 1954 | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

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