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Word: explainable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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Before the bleak, hospital-white walls of his gallery splattered with Marin water colors, Dealer Stieglitz stood belligerently trying to explain to reporters what there is about these pictures, formless daubs to many an initiate, that causes such enthusiasm. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Water Color Man | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

...back to the two Houses; they both have been having secret practice. This is bad. It may explain the panels in Lowell House tower, but it defeats the whole purpose of the Plan itself. The boys are supposed to chum around with each other. To segregate the football squads is not fair to the others. Besides it wouldn't be at all surprising to find the Dunster House team coming down to dinner and taking up a whole table by themselves. They might not pay any attention to their supporters and, worse, their supporters may not pay any attention them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE POWER AND THE GLORY | 11/20/1930 | See Source »

Will TIME please explain, for the benefit of the unschooled, how infra-red rays, which are invisible, can aid fog beacons, airfield lights? (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Inspiration & Contrast | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

...hired man falls in love with the lady he works for, but doesn't interrupt her wedding after all. A bitter woman sacrifices her secret formula for the best bread ever baked. A burglar willy-nilly witnesses a death scene, is converted by it, comes forward to explain, is arrested. An old man knows he is a burden, takes care that his suicide shall give as little trouble as possible. Zona Gale has seen through the salability of plot to the necessity of a story. Her prosy people are simplified into poetics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Near-Masterpiece-- | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

Gules three stags caboched or, Crest: at the top of a tower argent, an arm and hand vested gules, cuffed argent, holding a tilting spear sable, pointing dexter." To decipher 'one might explain that "gules" means red, "vested" designates wearing, "sable" black, "caboched" showing the full face but nothing of the neck, and "dexter" right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Architects Sink Elk Horn Theory of Dunster Crest With Flood of Heraldic Terminology--Description Baffles the Uninitiated | 11/6/1930 | See Source »

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