Word: explains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...driven from Harvard, there must be general house cleaning. However, there is a common tendency to make too much of these faults, and they are used to rationalize things for which they are not responsible. The tutoring schools blow them up to huge proportions, using them to explain the most vicious practices. Rich and indolent students give them as an excuse in entirely unwarranted cases. And the fact remains that without the knavery of the Harvard tutoring schools, and without a wealthy, lazy clientele, the tutoring racket would not exist
...which was painted a likeness of Dopey, Dwarf No. 7 in Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. From one angle it even looked as if Dopey were whispering into Lord Stanhope's right ear (see cut). Prompted or not, the First Lord proceeded to explain the empty seats...
...would have tried to force his own beliefs into his study of others. Dean Sperry, however, meets the layman on his own ground, discussing the material in the light of modern psychology, modern philosophy, and modern literary thought. He does not seek to glorify or debase but merely to explain in terms of modern thought what these "Classics of Christian Devotion" were trying to say. The reader is left to judge for himself whether what was said was worth saying...
Private letters reached the U. S. last week citing incidents which helped explain this terrific casualty. Like the ostrich, the Chinese believes that if he cannot see his attacker, he is safe. When Changsha was bombed, citizens rushed under trees and dived into bushes, murmuring thanks for their safety. Best example of Chinese ARP came from Changteh, 100 miles north of Changsha. There police systematically shot every dog they could find because the city's elders decided that their barking attracted Japanese bombing planes...
...Communist Meeting," I should like to offer a few corrections in the interest of more exact if less sensational journalism. Your story tells how "Continual remarks such as 'It's a lie' punctuated the remarks of the speaker." Now being responsible for that discourteous remark I should like to explain how and why it was made...