Word: explain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wife helping on the voluminous research needed for costumes and backgrounds, Painter Rowe worked steadily on his 32 illustrations for 3½ years. As a result, he has become deeply concerned with the Bible and the Christian faith. Said he last week: "I don't know how to explain it in words. I had to elevate myself to the high places in order to catch the spirit of the prophets...
Hydrography & Health. To explain how Point Four might work was the job of Under Secretary of State James E. Webb. Last week he appeared before the House Foreign Affairs Committee to push an Administration bill clearing the way for $35 million worth of technical assistance, ranging from hydrographic surveys to health advice, to get the program started. Webb's vague generalities on how the program would stimulate world trade and hence the U.S. economy were not the blueprint the committee wanted. Snorted Ohio Republican John M. Vorhys, critic of foreign spending: "Rube Goldberg must have been your consultant...
...days later the stock bounced up again to 4 3/8. At week's end RFC let out some news which might explain the rise. K-F had been dickering for a $30 million . loan since May, and if "all requirements are met" the RFC might be disposed to grant it. Detroit buzzed with rumors that Kaiser would use such a loan to retool for his long-promised, light low-priced car to compete with Chevrolet Ford and Plymouth...
...members of the Harvard Young Progressives accompanied Chi and Roberts to a parley with Whouley at Hazen's yesterday afternoon. Max Bluestone 2G, spokesman for the group, demanded that Whouley explain why Chi and Roberts were turned down when they applied for part time jobs which later went to white students...
...group program was slightly different. The delegates staged folk-songs, dances, and some original choral work in a pageant that represented the history of America. Their offering was popular; the delegates noted before they left that people were humming folk-songs from the show all over Budapest. "To help explain the thing," says one of the returning delegates, "we got up a program...