Word: explainable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gill (searching for papers): I think I can explain this, Mr. Commissioner...
...That Mr. Gill's judges insist upon examining trivial matters of administration at length, and at the same time impede the defendant's efforts to explain in detail important new penological concepts, which, because they are new, are not convincing unless fully outlined and backed by records...
...Radio City Theatre and fill it for two weeks when "Flying Down to Rio" played there? Why the tremendous ballyhoo for a musical picture when the public is just about fed up with the song and dance story that oozes from Hollywood in heavy doses? Frankly, I can not explain the whims of the movie fans, for "Flying Down to Rio" presents little that is novel except for a dance by the chorus on the wings of huge planes--and the Carioca, "a hot, volcanic new rhythm that is sweeping America." But I recommend the movie merely on the performance...
...underthings in a hurry for the Conservation Corps he had offered to trade his purchase for $8,000,000 worth of other Army equipment. Three Senators (Copeland, Barbour and Reynolds), who had written letters to the War Department on Joe Silverman's behalf, last week hastened to explain that they had done so merely out of kindness. Meantime Mr. Silverman had hired A. Mitchell Palmer to represent his legal interests and was sitting tight, saying nothing...
...look at Russia to explain that point," continued Professor De Haas. "A building financial company is to finance trade with Russia. This is necessary since the financing will require credits which are of too long a period of time to be given by commercial banks. The trade brought about by this will be extremely helpful to the United States because it will stimulate the production of goods of companies which have suffered most from the depression. Nevertheless, such financial assistance would be unjustified unless provisions were made, at the time of the granting of the loans, for repayment...