Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Invariably he is told that his intended victim has no office, and that perhaps he should write a letter to the editors. But sometimes he will not be put off, and so I have to explain that I am the very loudmouth he seeks, and that since I have no office I will try to choke down a cup of Bick's coffee with...
College administrators and graduate school admissions officers appear to be satisfied with grades as forecasters. Yet they insist they do not rely entirely on grades to judge people, saying that when they know someone competing for a fellowship or prize, grades become secondary to personal appraisal. They explain this apparent contradiction by arguing that only grades can work on a large scale, because of the idiosyncrasies of far-flung deans making recommendations...
...magazines to combat the state's hillbilly reputation, plugged the state's advantages, e.g., cheap plant sites and a big labor pool. Every paper in the state ran free commission ads urging Arkansans to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, and commission members canvassed the state to explain the new program...
Secretary Dulles, occasionally badgered and prodded by Lyndon Johnson and others, tried to explain away congressional and public concern that the U.S. had not talked sanctions when the Russians defied the U.N. in Hungary. It had long been implied, he said, that if sanctions were ever applied either to the U.S. or Russia the U.N. probably would break up and there might be war. Anyway, the U.S. already was applying a kind of sanction to Russia by limiting trade with Communist nations...
...first part of the speech will explain the House system and will give advice on what to look for in choosing a House. The rest of the speech will be concerned with how a freshman should apply to a House. The speakers will give clues on how a freshman can get into the House of his choice, but the "stereotypes" of the Houses will not be mentioned...