Word: telle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feeling that the Democratic forces are cracking the whip . . . There are some of us who happen to be prima donnas enough to object . . . We are not going to be treated as grade-school children by a strong schoolmaster who says, 'If you don't do what we tell you to do we are going to take you out into the woodshed...
Time trials next week will tell how far Haines has come to conjuring his men into preparedness for the MIT race a week from tomorrow. Its doubtful whether their showing will be up to that of last year's freshman 150 crew which was so extraordinarily good that six members of it now sit in the varsity 150 shell...
Although it is too soon after the event to tell exactly what "happened to the Northwest," Leet pointed out that 99 percent of all earthquakes are caused by faults similar to the one which was responsible for the San Francisco tremor. But he expects that local geologists "will be running all over the place with hammers within the next few days attempting to find the explanation...
Collisson had traveled thousands of miles around Western Germany, driving his own Pontiac or catching a sleeper, to tell large groups of Germans exactly what the Marshall Plan is-and is not. With an interpreter at his shoulder, he had spoken to chambers of commerce and trade unionists. His booming voice had carried sincerity and conviction. His audiences had invariably become so interested that they stayed to shoot questions at him for an hour or two after a speech, and hurried away like salesmen after a pep talk...
...remained under the British crown. A couple of Harvard students in reply insisted that July 4 was worth celebrating. This reminds us of an incident which occurred some years ago on ship-board. It was the Fourth of July and a young Englishman found it most amusing to tell his American acquaintances that "in England we call it 'Thanks-giving.'" He kept repeating his joke until an American girl remarked that she had always supposed the British called it Christmas. The Englishman wanted to know...