Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...preposterous Dr. Velikovsky . . . says he needs "more learning." What he really needs is a pinch of Attic salt. The famous passage about the sun standing still for Joshua needs no interplanetary cataclysm to explain it. It carries its explanation right in the text . . . The chronicler, writing ancient history, comes upon the Book of Jashar and quotes from it the couplet...
...Kamegulov's request [who he was and what he requested, the Soviet editors tantalizingly fail to explain] I cannot fulfill. No time! Besides, what the devil, what kind of critic would I be! That's all. I firmly shake your hand and wish you good health. Thanks for your greeting.-J. Stalin...
Specifically, what is bothering me is the incomprehensible way in which Mr. August J. Limber '50 is able to correct an error on page three of today's paper, IN THE SAME ISSUE that the error appears in print. Can you explain this enigma for me? Roy M. Goodman...
...grace was no surprise to the West. Though a steadfast Marxist of many years standing (he was a Communist member of Czechoslovakia's Parliament in 1935), Clementis had aroused the Kremlin's ire several times. In 1939, he denounced the Nazi-Soviet pact; ordered to Moscow to explain this, he refused to go. Instead, he spent the war years in London with Jan Masaryk and the liberal Czech government in exile...
...sure how many kinds of mesons there are, or what their properties are. Mesons are supposed to have some connection with the "binding force" that holds atomic nuclei together, but there is no complete theory to explain how they operate. Columbia's physicists hope that their new cyclotron, which generates plenty of mesons, may dig out many of their secrets. One possibility: that two colliding mesons may both vanish, suddenly, turning wholly into energy...