Word: explains
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Dwight Eisenhower, Protestant with no denominational affiliation: "You can't explain free government in any other terms than religious. The founding fathers had to refer to the Creator in order to make their revolutionary experiment make sense; it was because 'all men are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights' that men could dare to be free...
Core & Blanket. Zuckert did not explain what he meant by a "power only" reactor, but in the current issue of Nucleonics, Dr. W. H. Zinn, director of the AEC's Argonne National Laboratory, described the experimental "breeder" reactor built and operated by the University of Chicago at Arco, Idaho. It produces "power only" by burning its own byproduct, plutonium...
Last year's target for super-patriotic clodhoppers was the Pasadena school superintendent, who apparently was not sufficiently versed in the benefits of the Three R's campaign. This year discord grew from use of a booklet printed by the U.N. which suggests ways a teacher might best explain the United Nations Educational, Social, and Cultural Organization...
...last week he voiced a kind of pathetic bipartisan concern about the prodigy. "Today, when the class of '33 gets together, we talk about Soap," said Backus. "He's the guy who has done the most and gone the farthest. But I've stopped trying to explain him to my friends. For a while I would stand up for him and make excuses for his actions. But I can't any more. It's strange. We always looked to Soapy for ideals. But now I wonder if he hasn't scuttled them for practical...
Fine Print. In Baltimore, ten-year-old Ronnie Lee Leslie offered "the cheapest shoeshine in town-5?." went on to explain that, for only 5? more, "I'll shine the other shoe...