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Word: explains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American educational system, we believe that he has made an incomplete, faulty, and in places perhaps naive presentation of his side in this debate. In tomorrow's editorial we will attempt to show where Conant has failed in his defense of the public school and what points he should explain more forthrightly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant & the Schools: I | 4/22/1952 | See Source »

...sometimes finds himself at odds with your own varying tastes and opinions. But, says Eliot: "The critic's job is not to decide what kind of painting is best for the period. It's his job to look at pictures, try to understand them and to explain them so other people can understand them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 21, 1952 | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

Suits & Suitcases. It was wonderful fun for the highbinders who could get it. Still pending in a Havana court is a lawsuit brought by an Orthodox (Reform) Party Senator demanding that Grau and his ministers, including Prío, explain what happened to $174,241,840.14 that seemed to have disappeared during Grau's regime. The Senator's title for his case: "The greatest theft in history." But the greatest of the thieves is not named in the suit. José Manuel Alemán, Grau's favorite minister, who stole not one but an estimated hundred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Dictator with the People | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

...next two pages hints at the poem's obscurity. On the opposite page, naked Jerusalem, symbolizing a sort of spiritual Utopia, chats with veiled Vala, who symbolizes earthbound womanhood. The children point the way upward to glory. At the top of the next page, Jerusalem tries to explain to a flaming workman that the French Revolution was not a happy one. Below stands the central figure of Time, flanked by Man with the sun on his shoulder, and Woman spinning a blood-red thread of mortal life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: VESSELS OF IMMORTAL LIFE | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

...excitement which has been caused by the letter written about the Air ROTC dance is completely unnecessary. I would like to try to explain the situation as I understand it. I am an Air Science II student and not a member of the Dance Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DANCING IN THE DARK | 4/17/1952 | See Source »

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