Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...answer questions before they're asked, let's add that Mr. James Puckle took the trouble to explain, 'way back in 1718, that his gun was adapted to "shooting square bullets against-Turks and round bullets against Christians...
...Scottish Women's Peace Movement meeting on the other side of town had decided to fusillade him and get him to say something for their cause. Finally, so many telegrams piled up on Sir John's table that he had to interrupt his speech to explain to his audience. Having done so he demanded sarcastically...
Democracy Readers (for the primer and first six grades) have two able editors-Professor Werrett Wallace Charters of Ohio State University and Miss Prudence Cutright, assistant superintendent of schools in Minneapolis. The readers, as contemporary and homely as a comic strip, are didactic but entertaining. To explain democracy they draw upon the writings of such diverse modern characters as Edgar Guest, J. Edgar Hoover, Amelia Earhart, Dorothy Thompson and Pare Lorentz...
Cordell Hull thinks he can explain this to Congress and the public this year. Many politicos are less certain, and the Republican high command is sure Mr. Hull will be rolled over a barrel of imported Argentine beef. It was the farm bloc who wrote the Emergency Tariff of 1921, the Fordney-McCumber tariff boost of 1922, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930. Republicans may again become "friends of the farmer." Last week Mr. Hull said he welcomed an investigation, if it were not made by chums of the Smoot-Hawley tariff...
...stars in his spare time. Piggy Warburg announced his partnership in an official release tracing his career as a "worker in every branch of the Baltimore & Ohio," as stoker in Central Hudson Gas & Electric Co. power plant, vice president in the Bank of Manhattan Co., and philanthropist - failed to explain his interest in brokerage...