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Word: tell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many men were killed, how many trapped and perhaps dying slowly, it was impossible to tell. Perhaps 200 men had been in the workings when some improbable spark ignited the lurking mine gas. Rescuers pressed in, passing by corpses, to look for survivors, carrying canaries to test the air. At the shaft mouths, miners' families waited in silence. A score of bodies were taken out, then a dozen more. Rescued men told their stories. The neighborhood and the industry mourned, condoled, tried to forget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: At Mather, Pa. | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...also said: "Many men may develop in the convention, for you never can tell what will happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: G. O. P. | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...little jockeys hunched forward and moving their legs like frogs swimming-Ambrose on Edward Beale. McLean's Toro, Workman on Harry Payne Whitney's Victorian. Noses together, so close the jockeys could have whispered to each other, the humping horses moved toward the wire; nobody could tell which had won the $61,000 stake until a Number 7, Victorian's number, went up on the board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Preakness | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...doubted. Large portions of Lindbergh's plane disappeared under the onslaught of the souvenir-hunters, and whether the attack would have spared him is not easy to say. But the welcome is sincere, if enthusiastic, and if they are careful to stay under police guard they will survive to tell many thrilling tales about American greetings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PERILS OF GLORY | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...Paradise Cove, Mass., take a voyage to Singapore. One of them, ugly Mark (Ernest Torrence), becomes marooned with drink and Chinawomen, forgets his fiancée (Joan Crawford). The other son, handsome Joel (Ramon Novarro), is brought home in chains by the villainous members of the crew, who tell his father that he deserted Brother Mark. That is a lie. To vindicate himself, Brother Joel again sails to Singapore to fetch Brother Mark with the aid of Brother Mark's fiancée. After much skullduggery on land and sea, Brother Mark is killed while embracing the cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 14, 1928 | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

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