Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...haughtily rejected. But he served notice that the strike would be on again Dec. i unless the "arrogant and brutal" mine owners came to terms. At a news conference, where he tried to look ferocious but looked instead like a tired and harried hoot owl, John L. tried to explain that it was not a retreat but simply a gesture of good will...
M.L.T. professor Frederick J. Adams, chairman of the Planning Board, said that the University failed into explain at the public hearing on October 13 exactly how it planned to develop the land if the petition were granted...
...serene little catalogue note of his own, Artist Cooper said he could be of scant help to the critics: "The unconscious painter is himself only a spectator of the work he produces." But, said Cooper, he could explain why he had signed and dated his work on the back instead of the front: "The pictures may be hung in any of four ways...
...disappearance of those cards from the Harvard scene is difficult to explain, but University police confirmed an informal canvass of the houses Tuesday which implied that the football lotteries were not to be found in the Square...
Within the last few years a wealth of new information-from seismology, astronomy and nuclear physics-has been brought to bear on the problem. Scientists are beginning to explain why the earth is not too smooth for such land animals as man to live...