Word: explained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thank you very much. How am I going to explain to my Eastern relatives and friends when they find out that you say the section of San Francisco in which I live is "the toughest part of town" [TIME...
Last week came the turn of Henry Morgenthau, gentleman farmer, now Secretary of the Treasury, to go up Capitol Hill to explain to an inquisitive if not skeptical Congress the Administration's money plans. Having already announced that the Administration seeks no new taxes (except on Government salaries and securities), Mr. Morgenthau had to get Congress...
...saint who has no following to speak of, no medals, no propaganda. There's nothing to recommend him, really, except the fact that to no other saint in the calendar did the Son of God make the witnessed statement: 'You fill the bill.' Which helps explain why those who do believe in Dismas believe...
...whenever an individual's natural impulses are frustrated, he commits acts of aggression against the frustrater, against others or against himself; aggression always indicates frustration. The Institute's scientists proceeded to apply this theory to social as well as individual behavior. With it they sought to explain strikes, suicides, race prejudice, reformism, lynching, satire, crime, the reading of detective stories, wife-beating, war. They hoped the explanations would provide a formula for predicting and guiding the behavior of social groups...
...four buildings of the Graduate School of Engineering opposite the University Museum on Oxford street, will be open to visitors and faculty members. Student guides will be on hand at all the points of interest to explain the exhibits...