Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...being, to Belgium, The Netherlands and Denmark, who have bought all the lubricants Great Britain thinks they need just now. To the U. S. sailed two Cross emissaries-Professor Charles Rist, formerly of the Bank of France, and Frank Ashton-Gwatkin of the British Foreign Office-to try to explain to irritated U. S. businessmen the finer points and necessities of Economic Warfare...
...Douglas Mawson went over the Wilkes route, claimed that Wilkes had made mistakes or misrepresentations. These were attributed by Wilkes's defenders to polar refraction, which sometimes makes land below the horizon appear above it (a phenomenon also seized on by Robert Peary's defenders to explain Peary's mistakes in Greenland). Later it was shown that Mawson himself had erred because of the same illusions. Finally in 1939 the Australian Government caved in, put Wilkes's name on nearly all the 1,500 miles of shoreline which he had mapped...
...represents the extreme "Socialist" element of National Socialism and who talks all the time, was only continuing his week-old speaking tour to explain the Nazis' "social revolution" to German industrial workers. Same week Field Marshal Hermann Goring, on the other hand, who is more nationalist than socialist and who for a Nazi speaks very little, made his first public speech since last September. And he acted as if he still had faith in the profit system...
Although His Majesty has had some 150 wives, he belongs to a most ascetic Moslem sect, the Wahabis,and his courtiers explain: "Our King has never had more than four wives at any one time." Bert Fish last week voiced hopes "for the personal happiness of Your Majesty and the prosperity of your people," presented Ibn Saud with a silver-framed photograph of President Roosevelt. Before returning to Cairo, the U. S. Minister will travel narrowly in Saudi Arabia, widely in the Sudan and Upper Egypt...
Sarah Lawrence College is a small institution in Bronxville, a New York City suburb, where rich girls get a radical education. Its eleven years make Sarah Lawrence one of the oldest progressive colleges in the U. S. Last week President Constance Warren decided it was time to explain fully what her college was up to. She did so in a book: A New Design for Women's Education (Stokes...