Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...longer be forced to wait until a rash or fever appears before they know whether a sore throat signifies merely a cold or presages the measles. They will now be able to place a specimen of mucus from nose and throat stained by nigrosin under a microscope and tell in a moment whether or not the virus bodies that cause the measles are present. More important still, they will be able to detect carriers-people who carry the virus bodies about with them, infecting others, yet who are themselves immune to the disease...
...Rosten applied for an $1,800 Social Science Research Council field fellowship, for 16 months stalked Washington reporters at work, bent elbows with them at the National Press Club bar, came away from the Capital with a neo-scientific cross section of 127 (out of over 200) men who tell the country what the Government is doing...
Bill Slater who was announcing the game over Station WNAC talked for five minutes over the air about Daughter's wonderful second touchdown until his spotters finally got a word in edgewise to tell him that it was all a big mistake...
Then, if tradition is to be carried forward, he will embark on a long introductory talk. He will tell his jittering audience that the toughest job that faces a Varsity Manager all year is to pick the Sophomore winner, and the choice this year has been exceptionally difficult. He will end by handing out a letter to each of the quartet which will inform them of the outcome of the competition...
...under the New Deal, and the labor organizations which he plans for his liberal state. His labor organization, far from being a selfish, self-seeking pressure group, would merely use its power to ensure a nice balance between the bargaining power of capital and labor. Just who is to tell when this perfect equilibrium is reached and who is to keep labor within such bounds...