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Word: explainers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...this good temper was a little harder to explain, for beyond simply counting noses, the Government was setting out on a curbstone character reading of the country. One citizen in five who had reached the age of 14 was being asked how much money he made. The 140,000 census enumerators-all of them equipped with red, white & blue portfolios as big as window shutters-also wanted the answers to 418 square inches of questions in fine print...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CENSUS: The Big Count | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

...preposterous Dr. Velikovsky . . . says he needs "more learning." What he really needs is a pinch of Attic salt. The famous passage about the sun standing still for Joshua needs no interplanetary cataclysm to explain it. It carries its explanation right in the text . . . The chronicler, writing ancient history, comes upon the Book of Jashar and quotes from it the couplet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 3, 1950 | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

...Kamegulov's request [who he was and what he requested, the Soviet editors tantalizingly fail to explain] I cannot fulfill. No time! Besides, what the devil, what kind of critic would I be! That's all. I firmly shake your hand and wish you good health. Thanks for your greeting.-J. Stalin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Stalin on Stalin | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

Specifically, what is bothering me is the incomprehensible way in which Mr. August J. Limber '50 is able to correct an error on page three of today's paper, IN THE SAME ISSUE that the error appears in print. Can you explain this enigma for me? Roy M. Goodman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Asks Explanation | 4/1/1950 | See Source »

...sure how many kinds of mesons there are, or what their properties are. Mesons are supposed to have some connection with the "binding force" that holds atomic nuclei together, but there is no complete theory to explain how they operate. Columbia's physicists hope that their new cyclotron, which generates plenty of mesons, may dig out many of their secrets. One possibility: that two colliding mesons may both vanish, suddenly, turning wholly into energy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Proton Pusher | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

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