Word: explainable
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...police, unpaid since Jan. 1, commenced last week what their chief called "a sledgehammer campaign" against the city's underworldlings. Detectives and patrolmen scooped up night prowlers, street-corner hoodlums, speakeasy patrons, cabaret "artisteés," "guests" at red-light hotels, many a citizen who could not quickly explain his evening's stroll. Within twelve hours 917 assorted characters were arrested, of whom 271 were found to have police records. Revolvers were taken from a score. Soon the police sieve began to leak. More than half of those arrested were released for lack of evidence. Bondsmen and police...
...literary man." Like Il Duce he is said to have a jealous eye upon the Crown, not with a view to seizing it for himself but with intent to make Iceland a republic. Today the King of Iceland is also King Christian X of Denmark. But eager Icelandic-Americans explain: "Iceland is completely independent of Denmark. It is like two corporations in America, one may be a silk mill and the other an iron mine, who pay the same man to be president of both companies, though they are completely independent." Genial King Christian, leaving all his Danish courtiers behind...
...Lecture Hall, where annually the mysteries of medieval unity and modern multiplicity are expounded, some 700 policemen in plain clothes recently heard District Attorney Robert T. Bushnell explain methods of avoiding the pitfalls of cross-examination in court by clever "rapid-fire" criminal lawyers and counsel against bullying autoists. The officers of the law took no notes, and their numerous cigars created a haze which busy ventilators failed to dissipate, but their interest in the district attorney's talk was so keen that they were unanimous in voting for a continuation...
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...onetime (1918-21) Ambassador to Great Britain, onetime (1924) Democratic Candidate for President. Also invited were President Ernest Hatch Wilkins of Oberlin College and President Mary Emma Woolley of Mount Holyoke. Bennington's own President Robert Devore Leigh, procured two years ago from nearby Williams College, was there to explain to one and all what is perhaps the most flexible U. S. educational experiment to date...