Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unique position to remind students, on the part of the Faculty, that there is more to a Harvard education than so many hour examinations. But consideration for the many Freshmen I have not treated and shall not treat in the Lucullan manner your article implied requires me to explain publicity that, in my opinion, "lubrication" (as you put it) is not the only alternative to lucubration. Harlan P. Hanson, Director, Program of Advanced Standing
When asked to talk about Von Karman, air scientists are often at a loss to explain his abstruse theories, but they never lack affectionate anecdotes about the man himself. Never did a genius act more like a genius. Von Karman speaks at least seven languages, but his English carries a heavy load of Hungarian accent. When he used to lecture in the classroom, he supplemented speech with intricate gestures. He often wore a black silk cape and was never without a handkerchief, which he twisted, pulled or even chewed during moments of stress...
...falling to pieces, and one of their riders was last seen alongside a road in Poland ruefully studying a wheel that had parted company from its bike. One of the Egyptians, Hassib Farouk, instead of resting after the day's lap scurried about to buttonhole unwary spectators and explain: "I have only been riding four months...
...playwright himself is partly responsible, for his characters droop around a not-quite-real terrace in Southern France far too long before they begin to explain and find themselves by re-living scenes from their lives. Barrie does handle these reenactments, however, with intriguing mergings of the real and dream world--a girl friend becomes a mother in one re-experience, men become boys in another. Such projections out of reality are made into stimulating, fresh moments by the acting...
...students play tennis. H.A.A. figures show that all the courts together saw only 9,301 man-hours of play during the last academic year, while one-fourth as many students played 9,564 man-hours in summer school. Better summer weather and more leisure time do not explain this discrepancy; the relatively small number of courts obviously limits the amount of play by College students...