explanatory matter

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Such is the design of the following programs and explanatory matter.

From The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations by Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)

This practical volume has been written with special reference to the requirements of the non-technical reader desiring easily understood, explanatory matter, relating to all types of automobile ignition, starting and lighting systems.

From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Pag?, Victor Wilfred

While any one of the foregoing methods may be used for a single passage it is not usual in actual practice to find one scheme used throughout all the explanatory matter of the speech.

From Public Speaking by Stratton, Clarence

All recognized authorities are represented in the notes and explanatory matter, among them being Dyce, Coleridge, Dowden, Johnson, Malone, White and Hudson.

From The Mayflower, January, 1905 by Various

But at the time of which we are treating these collections had not been reduced to writing: they were of considerable extent compared with the Bible or Koran and they admitted later explanatory matter.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Eliot, Charles, Sir