Word: explainable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thomas H. Eliot '28, legal adviser of the Social Security Board, will explain the purpose and actions of the Board at Dunster House Monday evening. It is expected that he will also defend the Social Security...
When a fellow gets beaten in a race, he is a mighty poor loser if he attempts in any way to explain his defeat. When a fellow has not been in a race, however, it seems legitimate to call that fact to the attention of those who seem to believe that someone else beat...
...Famed Psychologist Alfred Adler ("Inferiority Complex") opined that children who do not digest their food properly may later become greedy for food, and, by extension, greedy for money, which would explain why so many potent financiers have stomach trouble...
...Captain James A. Mollison, Britain's No. 1 flyer, off on his fourth transatlantic flight. To explain his costume he smirked: "I don't want to lose any time getting to a party once I land at Croydon." Of late, Captain Mollison and his famed flying wife, Amy Johnson Mollison, have been noted more for the frequency of their parties than for the brilliance of their flying. Fortnight ago Amy made a bad landing in Kent, buried her plane's nose in the ground, broke her own nose on the dashboard. Mortified, she took the occasion...
Promptly raised by this decision was a corporate question which President Robert E. Wood undertook to explain in a letter to his 34,500 stockholders. This year, he declared, Sears would probably do a $500,000,000 business, a record. Only four years ago total sales were $276,000. To handle this tremendous increase in volume Sears had to carry bigger inventories, more accounts receivable. The rise in these two items alone required $60,000,000 of additional working capital, a sum provided part by bank loans, part by profits. In the normal course, wrote President Wood, the bank loans...