Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know I can lick 'em," cried DePinto as he took his place, his arms laden with the spheres that were to tell the tale of victory or defeat for Harvard. He sent his first ball spinning down the alley and it scattered the candle pins for a perfect strike. He took another shot, and again all the pins were felled, and so it went until his total had sky-rocketed to 149, leaving the Crimson sphere-slingers with their 1686 aggregate score...
...certain were political observers at the Capitol that the bill had not a chance of passing the Legislature that even Foley did not appear optimistic yesterday. His only comment was, "I can't tell...
...aside from his appeal to the crowd in the pool balcony, the little man is important because of his point-getting ability. Seconds and thirds, any Varsity swimmer will tell you, won the Yale meet last year. It was such things as Don Racker's second in the 50, Jim Munroe's third in the breastroke, and Hutter's magnificent second in the 440 that saved the meet from being decided by the last event, the open relay, which Yale won. It is worthy of mention that the crowd gave Hutter the greatest ovation not when he took...
...Swine!" Not many foreigners realize that when a Nazi youth is called up for military service the Army sergeants at whose mercy he finds himself commonly tell him to "Forget everything the Party taught you and remember you are a dog of a swine like the rest of these raw recruits!" If the Nazi has been an officer in the political Storm Troops, the Army sergeants up to now have been even harsher in knocking the conceit out of him. This attitude, raised from the brutality of a sergeant to the suavity of a general, was what Dictator Hitler encountered...
...didn't you tell them you were a reporter and save yourself, your family and your paper all this anxiety?" the amazed doctor asked. Said Hearst Reporter Bernard, no less amazed: "Why, that would have spoiled the whole story...