Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...fraught with peril to our free institutions." One is Arizona's Ashurst. Another is bumbling Alben Barkley. Last week, to embarrass them, Nebraska's Edward Burke invited them to his sub-committee hearings on his proposed Constitutional amendment limiting a President to one six-year term, to explain their support of a third term for Franklin Roosevelt. They hedged. Rumbled Alben Barkley: "A wise man may change his mind, but a fool never does." Quipped Henry Fountain Ashurst: "I am confronted with such a situation that I must vote . . . for a third-termer rather than a third-rater...
...last week was Adolf Hitler. One afternoon he appeared unexpectedly before a hand-picked Nazi audience in Berlin's Sportspalast and strode jauntily out on the platform. He looked chipper and fit. He had a fresh haircut, his mustache had just been trimmed. His job was to explain why Germany was being bombed with such disquieting regularity, and Orator Hitler did a good...
...manner, Shanks deprecates his "cynical knowingness . . . drawling and cynical knowledge , . . not really an endearing quality." And of one of Kipling's more exuberant verses (praising the delights of looting) Shanks confesses: "This is wholly detestable, and it makes the commentator on Kipling turn red when he endeavors to explain...
This is the terse and unsatisfactory description you find when you look up Harvard in the Encyclopedia Brittanica, fourteenth edition. Ask a middle western business man about Harvard, and he will tell you that Harvard is a hotbed of radicals and crackpots. Ask a communist, and he will explain that Harvard is a citadel of reaction, and that the University's much-vaunted liberalism is so much window-dressing. Ask a Cambridge citizen, and he will inform you that Harvard is a fur-lined cradle for the idle and arrogant sons of the rich. Go to Mickey Sullivan, the Donald...
Brilliant Physicist Ira Maximilian Freeman, who took his University of Chicago Ph.D. in 1928 when only 22, spends most of his time on abstruse equations of quantum theory. But Dr. Freeman is also a teacher (at Central College, Chicago), would like to explain science to the average citizen, dispel its "mysteries and marvels." In his latest book, Invitation to Experiment, published last week (Dutton; $2.50), he lures his readers into kitchen and bathroom, where they can dope out for themselves "the things that make the universe tick." With clever drawings and photographs, he simplifies molecular motion, gravitation, optics, everything...