Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most prefer to conform to some extent, to strike the balance between the individual tastes, and the Harvard stereotype. It is the easiest way to be yourself and yet not have to explain your actions...
...moments of cynicism, Songwriter Bob Merrill has a special theory to explain why the U.S. public buys hit records. "For every one who takes the record home to play," he says, "two buy it for the pleasure of breaking it to bits." If there was any truth in the hypothesis, a great many U.S. citizens were smashing up Bob Merrill's own records last week. One lightweight little number, If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd 've Baked a Cake, has topped the hit parade three weeks in a row, with record sales passing...
...University should receive the report on the movie possibilities in the near future and will then decide whether the film is worth the costs involved. The University is also weighing the question of whether a movie is the proper medium to explain the College to the public...
...capital plant has been paying off in increased productivity . . . The government [productivity] figures give an average 5½% gain m 1949; other estimates show that the gain ranges from 2% in textiles to 15% in precision instruments and 21% in the automobile industry . . . The productivity figures . . . help explain the surprising remark of left-wing Socialist M.P. Dick Crossman."I thank heaven," Grossman said, "that the motor car industry is still under private enterprise...
...speak Italian, recalls Gian-Carlo's first visit to their West Chester, Pa. home. They could only stare at each other when Sam was out of the room. Finally, when it became time to leave, Mrs. Barber recalls, Gian-Carlo shook her hand warmly and tried to explain: "I have many thinks but few words...