Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Federal Reserve's policy is aimed against inflation, how does Martin explain the fact that the cost of living is at an all-time high? "We have never said our policy has been 100% effective and we never will . . . But the real test is how much higher those prices would have risen if the law of supply and demand in the market place had not been permitted to operate to dampen somewhat the rate of spending and proceed to move in the direction of increased savings...
...wolf doesn't eat Little Red Riding Hood; Snow White's stepmother sends her to the woods, but not to be executed. ¶ Pop songs with a "kiddie beat." i.e., reduced intensity, such as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, or Sixteen Tons, its lyrics altered to explain that coal is mined so that houses can be heated. ¶ Educational or uplift records such as The Alphabet Song, Counting Song (Cricket), good-neighbor songs, meet-the-orches-tra productions, and stories accompanied by adulterated symphonic scores, e.g., Ludwig Bemelmans' Madeline (RCA Victor). ¶ Special songs, which too often...
Teitelbaum is trying to discover what part of the hunger process has been altered in each case and how the various sections of the brain coordinate to produce the sensation of hunger. He hopes to be able to use the knowledge gained from this study to explain other human sensations and appetites...
...leases upon which drilling had not started, thus might not have big enough gas potential to satisfy FPC that the yield could supply gas for a long enough period. C.M. & M.'s answer was to throw a $5,000 chicken barbecue last summer for Wise County landowners, and explain in neighborly fashion why the sales of gas on their land was being held up. The disgruntled voices of Wise County were heard all the way to Washington, and last week the FPC granted...
...sentence from this will serve better than any other to explain just why the Rhode Scholarships have come to stand for such a general mark of all-around excellence: "In awarding the scholarships great consideration shall be given to those who have shown during school days that they have instincts to lead and take an interest in their schoolmates which attributes will be likely in after life to guide them to esteem the performance of public duties as their highest...