Lubell offers his book as an explanation of why there was no clue.

`` There was nothing else I could do '', the maid answered, satisfied with a rather vague explanation.

But Mercer's explanation was simple: `` I made out the check and carried it around a few days unsigned -- in case I lost it ''.

This explanation is attractive, but is vitiated at least in part by the observation that Cynewulf, though he used kennings in the traditional manner, was a literate man who four times inscribed his name by runes into his works.

A traditional Lao explanation is that the moon was being swallowed by a toad, and the remedy was to make all possible noise, ideally with firearms.

non-mathematical explanation of the additive effects model was

The working principle of a yupana is unknown, but in 2001 an explanation of the mathematical basis of these instruments was proposed by Italian mathematician Nicolino De Pasquale.

Not only was his Belgian nationality interesting because of Belgium's occupation by Germany ( which provided a valid explanation of why such a skilled detective would be out of work and available to solve mysteries at an English country house ), but also at the time of Christie's writing, it was considered patriotic to express sympathy with the Belgians, since the invasion of their country had constituted Britain's casus belli for entering World War I, and British wartime propaganda emphasized the " Rape of Belgium ".

The most common explanation suggests that the name was taken from the railway station in Marple, Stockport, through which Christie passed, with the alternative account that Christie took it from the home of a Marple family who lived at Marple Hall, near her sister Madge's home at Abney Hall.

Although an explanation for the phenomenon was not provided until 1919, duralumin was one of the first " age hardening " alloys to be used, and was soon followed by many others.

Thomson theorized that multiple electrons revolved in orbit-like rings within a positively charged jelly-like substance, and between the electron's discovery and 1909, this " plum pudding model " was the most widely accepted explanation of atomic structure.

Using this physical explanation of electromagnetic motion, Ampère developed a physical account of electromagnetic phenomena that was both empirically demonstrable and mathematically predictive.

Apparently, defence was impossible ; there are hints, not well substantiated, of treachery ; surprise is a more likely explanation.

His explanation for this decision was, " Damn the Negroes, I am fighting those traitorous aristocrats, their masters.

Whichever explanation is true, it seems certain the appellation was chosen by the Almoravids for themselves, partly with the conscious goal of forestalling any tribal or ethnic identifications.

He was essentially a theorist, and his great merit lay in the capacity of taking over experimental work that others had carried out — without always adequately recognizing their claims — and by a rigorous logical procedure, reinforced by his own quantitative experiments, of expounding the true explanation of the results.

The day's next task was to deploy the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package ( ALSEP ); while they were parking the lunar rover, on which the TV camera was mounted, to observe the deployment, the rear steering began functioning without explanation.

While the issue of military funding was perhaps the most obvious explanation for Grothendieck's departure from IHÉS, those who knew him say that the causes of the rupture ran deeper.

However, he was no closer to finding an explanation of why aberration occurred.

Bradley eventually developed the explanation of aberration in about September 1728 and his theory was presented to the Royal Society in mid January the next year.

Ejaculated the surprised woman, looking at Alex for an explanation but he, parting from her without ceremony, only offered a few words about the doctor's provincial American speech and a state of nerves brought on by the demands of his work.

In this film the intertitle " The birth of the evil thought " precedes a series of three shots of the protagonist looking at a spider, and ants eating an insect, though at a later point in the film, when he prepares to kill someone, these shots are cut straight in without explanation.

In D. W. Griffith's The Avenging Conscience ( 1914 ), the title " The birth of the evil thought " precedes a series of three shots of the protagonist looking at a spider, and ants eating an insect, though at a later point in the film when he prepares to kill someone these shots are cut straight in without explanation.

He offered an obscure explanation of the sun or moon illusion ( the enlarged apparent size on the horizon ) based on the difficulty of looking upwards.

This allowed for an explanation of why the Klingons on The Original Series lacked brow ridges and were much more human looking than Klingons in any of the other series ; they were mutants created by faulty genetic engineering.

They are looking for an explanation of the catastrophe – and a villain to blame.

This involves taking up a dictionary and finding a selection of terms relating to the key concept, then looking up each of the words in the explanation of their meaning.

The title came from Bradley's explanation for his ability to repeatedly throw a basketball over his shoulder and into the basket while looking away from it.

The last explanation given by Gajdusek before his death was that the women retained scraps of the brain under their nails, and that when they scratched the child's head looking for vermin, they then inoculated the disease.

Mokkari and Simyan appear, looking more or less identical to their previous forms, with no explanation given to where their bodies came from.

The colonel would often be shown looking fretfully out his window, worried without explanation or evidence, simply because he knew that Bilko was out there somewhere, planning something.

Upon much research and thought, he decided that the only way to find it is by looking for a " wonder ", i. e. something that has no rational explanation.

His attention to the complication is helpful for those who are looking for detailed explanation, but rarely clears the air of confusions.

The student applying this method in looking for an explanation of some property of water — why it extinguishes fire, for example — will find to his surprise that hydrogen burns and oxygen sustains fire ....

That nearer the castle is in the shape of a woman ’ s head, giving rise to the second explanation “ the rock has assumed the shape of a seated woman, the Sphinx like head looking eternally westward to the setting sun .”

Still, the book's message is presented as an intellectual inquiry by an individual looking for an explanation to the mysteries of human existence that satisfies his own innate reason.

Roy's only explanation for the DNA evidence was that he had discovered Alison's naked body while looking for a place to urinate while on a run in the park, once discovering the deceased body of Alison Parrott in the brush, he had a sudden urge to stick his finger inside her.

Charles Beard's An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States ( 1913 ) offered an explanation of the form and content of the U. S. Constitution by looking at the class background and economic interests of the Founding Fathers.

This was circulated and widely discussed, with scientists sharing Herschel's approach of looking for an answer through laws of nature and rejecting ad hoc miracles as an explanation.

"... America Conservative evangelicals had been looking for an explanation for the secular drift of their country, and Schaeffer's diagnosis of contemporary cultural ills gave them a framework for understanding it.

The first sentence of " Dead Man in the Silver Market " offers an example of his good-humored approach to this contentious topic: " Men of all races have always sought for a convincing explanation of their own astonishing excellence and they have frequently found what they were looking for.

Using Oz's heightened senses to lead the way, Buffy and Oz go looking for Veruca, although Buffy is not interested in Oz's explanation for why he committed the actions which have left her best friend heartbroken.

And for those looking for an explanation for the sounds, Brookfield Zoo is only a few miles away.

Wot U looking at ?, for the science strand Horizon, presented his highly influential explanation ( from his monograph Juvenile Violence in a Winner-Loser Culture ) for why the poor are more violent than the rich and why violence has been rocketing since 1987 in the UK.