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Word: explainers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...rain-formation. The old explanation, which the Weather Bureau still favors, worked in terms of complex systems of wind. Rainmakers claim that precipitation depends more on nature's providing enough particles on which, raindrops can form-or on man's providing artificial particles, like silver iodide nuclei. To explain how this "seeding" can result in a violent storm, they provide a detailed "chain-reaction" theory...

Author: By Daniel Ellsberg, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 6/2/1950 | See Source »

...first duty of an ambassador is to explain the regime of the country he represents. In this sense Comrade Popovich had made a good start. He had demonstrated to the people of the U.S. that a Tito Communist is still a Communist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Double Talk | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

Planted thick with seedling hints that help to explain Grant's military greatness, Lloyd Lewis' Volume I is biography's richest, most persuasive treatment of Grant's youthful years. As such, it is also profoundly unsatisfying, for it is the end of his work. Behind him Biographer Lewis left a pile of unused research for two or three more volumes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Captain from Ohio | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

...explain that we went into Revere and found police who could not, would not, and did not do their duty?" he asked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bookies in Square May Live On Police Fix, Says Fingold | 5/24/1950 | See Source »

When officials discovered a chart next to the new phones with check marks indicating the number of successful "penny" calls, the company removed the machines entirely. They were at a loss to explain the failure of their specially devised "spin-proof" shaft...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pennies Spin: Phones Lifted | 5/24/1950 | See Source »

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