Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nuns were instructed to explain the pamphlet to their pupils. Other copies were distributed through the Catholic War Veterans, Knights of Columbus, Holy Name and Rosary societies. Parish priests were briefed. In all, the church expected to distribute close to 250,000 copies. But most Jersey political observers thought that, even with the church's help, Wene would have to make more gains before he could cry "bingo" and walk off with the governorship as his prize...
...planets were formed by condensation out of a gaseous cloud. For a while astronomers supported Kant, but later his "nebula hypothesis" lost scientific favor. More modern astronomers, notably Sir James Jeans, have conceded that the sun may have been formed that way, but not the planets. To explain the planets, Jeans suggested that another star must have grazed the sun, pulling out a thread of sun-matter that gathered into beadlike planets...
...They acted like gentlemen most of the time, not like soccer players," one Dartmouth team member remarked to a mate at the close of yesterday's game. He was right, too; there isn't a better way to explain why the Crimson soccer team was upset, 3 to 0, by Dartmouth on the Business School Field...
Hanford said House tutors will be in the near future hand out suggested reading lists to non-honors candidates and will explain the purpose of general examinations to them. For non-House residents, a meeting will be called in Littauer at 4 p.m. next Tuesday...
...last word . . . superb musician . . . we're all very happy." Said new Conductor Münch himself in tentative English: the orchestra was "good," the enthusiasm from the audience "difficile" to explain...