Word: explainable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...observe in the Soviet Union . . . a worship of everything American?that is to say of the land of the dollar, the most consistent capitalist country. . . . How do you explain this...
...younger generation,--of utmost importance according to the 1907 class report,--has largely been groomed in the art of football. To explain baseball with examples and laboratory demonstrations in the aisle, is father's privilege, and yesterday he made the most of it. Crew once afforded father an added opportunity to take the head of the family, but now that Vassar breakfast tables ring with chatter about track and rowing, baseball remains without doubt the only field in which the male parent can be sure of himself in the company of his offspring...
...vain the new Chancellor addressed an open letter to a high German Catholic prelate, attempted to explain that he had "accepted the President's call not as a party man but as a German." Sternly an official Catholic Centrist manifesto denounced "the frivolous intrigues of constitutionally irresponsible individuals." At Cologne the Party's newsorgan called the new Cabinet "a bad joke," added: "Of all the surprises which domestic politics have recently produced this is the greatest and most painful...
...murder appears to have been committed and a dim-witted lady named Sybil (Zasu Pitts) discovers an absent-minded individual dressed in a raincoat who seems to know something about it. Finally, Daniels' daughter and her husband discover the timid embalmer's assistant. He helps to explain matters to the addle-pated police...
Many a U. S. moppet has pestered his neighbors to buy a package of soap or bluing for 10?. He rarely had to explain that he had answered "that ad in last Sunday's 'funnies.' " The fascinating advertisement in the comic section of his Hearstpaper had told him that for the proceeds of 24 sales, plus a small charge "for wrapping and mailing," he might have a marvellous motion picture machine; or a real cowboy suit. Enterprising little girls were offered talking dolls...