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Word: tell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Davis, last Democratic Presidential nominee and still technical head of the party. Toastmaster Davis explained that the Democracy must be something between an army of generals and a set of political chessmen. He called upon all Democrats to unite for victory, and upon famed Democrats around the tables to tell how and why victory must come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: War and Peace | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...solemn whisper always ringing in his ears like the sea's slow music echoing in a shell. It is easy to believe the legends of Hardy which picture him as he grew up writing love letters for illiterate or ineloquent country ladies; sitting in thatched cottages hearing farmers tell the stories about old battles that had once stirred their brief clamor in the endless quiet. When he was 16, Thomas Hardy was articled to a Dorchester architect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death of Hardy | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

Craig Before you go, tell me this. Will you give me a conference some time before my divisional examinations...

Author: By G. K. W., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/21/1928 | See Source »

...nevertheless difficult toward off, daily reports from metropolitan sports writers, unfounded but disturbing rumors--these are the dangers faced by Harvard when it enters into a non-scouting entente. True. Yale faces them, too--that is, with the exception of the daily battery of omniscient newspaper men and their--tell-tale cameras. But, as the News admits, "in Boston it looks different". Harvard, realizing that the situation not-only looks but is different, has very wisely decided not to enter on further similar agreements...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE REASON WHY | 1/19/1928 | See Source »

...bums")?"You can't tell about bums. Some of us grow up and get refined and have our day. Then watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: In Newburyport | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

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