Word: explainers
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Chambers got hold of them? What was inexplicable by Hiss's version of the case, Alger Hiss simply did not try to explain. After four days, Murphy ended his crossexamination, and Hiss stepped down. To the stand came Priscilla Hiss, who this week will face the implacable Murphy...
...combustion to release energy, but matter itself could not be turned into energy. The chemical elements were indestructible; no atom of one could be transmuted into an atom of another. The scientists were confident that if they applied such well-known rules with greater & greater precision, they could eventually explain everything in the universe. Few of them suspected, and fewer dared suggest, that the basic rules might be wrong...
...during 1949 than in any previous year. Last week the total passed 43,000. As the sad statistics piled up, officials of the U.S. Public Health Service combed through mountains of reports, noting where poliomyelitis had struck most heavily, hoping that locating the outbreaks would help to explain them. The results were discouraging...
...signed to a five-year contract with RCA Victor (Sealtest is a co-sponsor), Chicago-born Bachelor Tillstrom is no more able than his fans to explain exactly why his show clicks. "I don't try to be a satirist, because I am not a brilliant wit like Fred Allen,"* he says. "In fact, I think I tend a little to sadness...
...real heroes are the shrewd and patient Lincoln, efficient Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton and the fighting soldiers of the Union army. Williams winds up his critique of the Battle of Gettysburg with this blunt praise: "It would seem that every possible excuse has been put forward to explain Lee's failure at Gettysburg. But the real explanation can be given in three words: the Union army...