Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...This may explain," he said, "why there may have been a failure to come immediately to grips with the topic advertised as the subject of the discussion. Not being endowed with clairvoyance I did not know that the subject had thus been defined. Evidently there was a slip-up somewhere in the antecedent clarification of the subject to be discussed...
...William S. Tyson '49, organizer of the disputed election, urged that the Council publish a reply refuting the attacking letter point by point and explain its reasons for departing for customary election procedure when...
...these points. It was able to challenge the accuracy of the Chambers memory in some details. It was able to raise doubts about others. But it was not able to destroy the overall effect of Murphy's whole, corroborative case. In particular, the defense was never able to explain away the documents and the Woodstock typewriter. The second jury found Hiss guilty...
...bank's annual meeting. A stockholder complained against the bank's loan of $25 million last year to Franco's Spain, and offered a resolution prohibiting another loan without approval of a "big majority" of stockholders. Aldrich ruled the resolution out of order, went on to explain that the loan was secured by gold and approved by the State Department. But just to make it quite plain who was boss, he added: "The management of this institution is in the hands of the ... directors . . . The stockholders have no right to intervene...
...taken by mouth, or the fumes from one cupful breathed in a poorly ventilated room, could cause death. It is especially dangerous to people who have been drinking. The doctors' recommendation: manufacturers of cleaning fluids containing carbon tetrachloride should label it poisonous, attach the usual skull & crossbones and explain the conditions under which it is most dangerous...