Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Here," said the frat men, "I'll explain it." He walked the boy over to a chair and sat down. He began reading out loud, and the boy walked away. After a while, he stopped reading out loud...
...this prying into marsupial secrets, says Dr. Hartman, is more than idle curiosity or an effort to explain away old folklore. In the possum's pouch, science can study living embryos outside the womb. Thus, from the thick-witted possum, man may learn some lessons on how to care for his own premature young...
Littauer has never been quite sure where it was going in its internal development partly because its has never quite known what it was. Every year it is the task of Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government, to explain dutifully to incoming students what he calls "the mystery of Littauer." He points out that, other than Dean Edward S. Mason, the school has no faculty members of its own--the men who teach are paid by the Law School, Business School, or School of Arts and Sciences. Nor has it any courses that are not also listed...
...biology and the other two to excuse his apologies," the two and a half hour meeting brought forth the alleged differences between the sciences. Frank pointed out that the theoretical physicist is faced with much the same sort of problem as is the biologist when the former attempts to explain complicated physical phenomena. Conant subscribed by adding that the very "success of physics was that it had by-passed the really difficult problems...
...keep in touch with the Mau Mau through a big Russian hospital in Addis Ababa. African patients get free medical treatment, courtesy of the Kremlin; afterwards, they have a curious habit of turning up in trouble spots all over Africa. Sir Percy's theory, if true, could plausibly explain the fact that Mau Mau agents have been caught infiltrating along the lower slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro into Tanganyika Territory, and that a Mau Mau-like society whose slogan is "Kill the Whites and Christians" is growing in the Belgian Congo. With Asia in flames, the Reds are apparently getting...