Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime, in his exuberant enthusiasm the President has put his foot in several hornets' nests. A large part of his time last week was spent in explaining that he did not mean what he had said. He had to tell the Advisory Council not to take too seriously the trust-busting speeches of Harold Ickes and Robert Jackson. He had to explain that he had no intention of reviving NRA evenin a modified form. When his talk of a supercommittee on co-operacy aroused the jealousy of Congressmen and the suspicions of his liberal advisers, he countered with...
Dear Polly: Please tell us, how much does it take to get married...
...pieces of furniture, too. Do you think we have enough to start farming in March? We'll rent at first, of course. We know we'd have more money saved if each of us worked a few more years, but we're tired of waiting. Please tell me just what you think...
...thing, ants cannot tell the difference between ants and non-ants working in the ant hills. They make indiscriminate food deliveries all around. For another, they allow a species of butterfly to invade the nests and eat the grubs. The ants tolerate this because they like a sticky substance which the butterfly exudes. "It is," commented owl-eyed Biologist Huxley, "as if a nursemaid were to allow a wolf to carry off the baby from her pram in return...
...with new versions every week. His pattern characterization which persist throughout increase its merit. He does not sit in an armchair with his won bibliography in front of him, going over each title as it appears, and racking his brains for an anecdote or some hitherto undisclosed fact to tell of it. Instead he throws a pack over his shoulder and starts out on a hike from London to Devon-shire, treading again over the same highways he had traveled along in his Cambridge days...