Word: explainable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Yale has the new College Plan which in its many manifestations is extremely vague to the outsider, an organization of Yale men who would explain the purpose and function of this plan in preparatory schools would be of inestimable value...
Meanwhile the country continued to debate the rights & wrongs of the President's precipitate action on airmail contracts. What his friends had the hardest time explaining away was his wholesale conviction of all airlines without giving any of them a hearing. His motives might have been of the best. He may have been trying to inject a high sense of morals into Government contracts. But his methods found few informed advocates. Many a citizen was content to believe that his President could do no wrong, but there were plenty of others who suspected that his action and his failure...
Week before Flornell Spicy Bit had been beaten in a specialty show limited to her own breed. No one expects a dog judge to explain which among a hundred fine-drawn points of form and carriage has made him place one perfect purebred above all others. But Judge Jarrett last week departed from custom to comment on his choice: "This is a wonderful fox terrier of the correct size, shown in good coat, put down well and splendidly handled. In fact, she won comfortably...
...Bill" chats with a smoothness and correctness of speech seldom found among people of the sporting world. As one hears him discuss the masters of music and their newly acquired ideas of rhythm, which he uses to explain the tennis stroke, one can not help gaining the feeling that Tilden has travelled extensively and possesses wide information...
...expression about a political demon is fusty! And what else should a demon be if not ruthless? As to the propriety of liberals feeling distrust for the Senator because they have been disgusted by personal contact with him, that is something which it would take an ingenious liberal to explain. But prudent delvers in English must refuse to believe that character can be guarded by a bodyguard. A bodyguard may keep strangers from whanging a Senator in the eye, but a Senator's character needs far different and subtler protection...