Word: tell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nearly as the Treasury Department could tell last week, the month's tax collections would total some $515,000,000, or a little more than for the corresponding quarter last year. But the nature of these returns was such as to predict diminishing returns in the remaining quarters of the year. Individual incomes appeared to have risen in the past year, while corporation incomes dropped off. Corporations had evidently increased their dividends. Private individuals, attracted by high prices, had taken their securities out of deposit and sold them at larger profits. Thus, while the U. S. Treasury surplus...
...received a message from Papa tc Ferret to tell him to take us to a park where we could play on the grass but he would not understand us and took us down to the rivers band where there is nothing but stone. After a great deal of talking he took us to the Botanical gardens. At there we had a bad time at the first part but finelly we had a game...
...That a play in nine episodes such as "Escape" could run twenty weeks in New York is a good deal of a triumph. If you were to tell an average playwright to take nine scenes, a prisoner escaping, and later being caught, with no trace of romance, and write a play out of it, he would turn out something of a mess, unquestionably. There is not much on the surface to work with...
...government and economy-these he stands for, but they are conditions, not ends. A technologist, he does not discuss ultimate purposes. In a society of temperate, industrious, unspeculative beavers, such a beaver-man would make an ideal King-beaver. But humans are different. People want Herbert Hoover to tell where, with his extraordinary abilities, he would lead them. He needs, it would seem, to undergo a spiritual crisis before he will satisfy as a popular leader...
...could see white horses riding on clouds and fire all around them." (aged 10.) "/'// tell you the reason