Word: explainers
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Pasteur thus by accident discovered the principle of preventive innovation against infectious disease. For the firs time someone could explain why pus from a calf's poxy sores prevented smallpox in human beings...
...Central Committee advance information for assigning rooms, it has been decided to require students to turn in their study cards with their choice of concentration on March 15. A general meeting of Freshmen will be held on March 2 at which various members of the Faculty will speak to explain the purposes of concentration and factors on which choices should be made...
...time to realize that the insidious delusions in the mind of the unthinking average voter can be combatted only by instilling in his mind counter-delusions. Explain the situation to him in words of one syllable and in a light favorable to his economic aspirations. In short, appeal to his natural prejudices; by demagogic illogic crush the demogogues...
...birdland," showed stereopticon pictures of his conquests over birds. Of a mother plover with her brood of four sitting on his hand, he said: "There is perfect faith there. Don't ask me how I do it. I don't know, and I can't explain. In my sanctuary all the birds . . . know me now, but that plover didn't know me. She just trusted...
...questions themselves range all the way from the frank query "Do you favor the abolition of the elementary language requirement?" to the general principle involved in "For each of the elementary courses you have taken to satisfy the language requirements, explain what value or interest it has for you other than as a means of meeting the requirement, i.e. cultural value, mental training...