Word: explainable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps TIME can explain this anomaly...
...their failure to issue prompt and accurate information of the affair early in January one may conceivably expense the authorities on the ground that they have had woefully little practice in a proper handling of the press. But it is far more difficult to explain away both their lack of routine courtesy and their egregious want of intelligent self-interest in falling to reply to the proposal of the State Minimum Wage Board when the matter was so near settlement two years...
...recent comment has been rather in the direction of difference than indifference, there still seems to be evidence of a prevalent feeling that Harvard is a fitting subject for the attentions of a mob psychologist. The undergraduate is put in the embarrassing position of feeling that he ought to explain, and knowing that any attempt on his part will only make matters worse...
Marching two-by-two, 40 terrified schoolchildren of Kesarion, suburb of Athens, were chivied along the sidewalk last week. The older children clenched their hands bravely beneath their black pinafores. The younger howled lustily and unashamed. They were going to the hospital. It was useless for patient teachers to explain that they were merely going to the hospital to have their eyes examined in accordance with the Government's physical culture program. To children of all Balkan countries, "hospital" is a most terrible word. "Hospital" is where you die, where they torture children, cut off their ears...
...basis of the talkie is dialog-not dramatic or literary dialog, but "elementary," sometimes mere grunts and wheezes. "The only people who have had much experience with elementary dialog are a few of our most popular writers of best sellers and the writers of vaudeville sketches." Authors Pitkin & Marston explain the mechanics of sound pictures, admit that their development is just getting under way, prophesy that they will complete the subjugation of the "legitimate" theatre. "The stage must pass, except as a rehearsal spot for companies preparing sound pictures...