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Word: telling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tell you something we did, and I can imagine how the sanitary fanatics of today would look with horror at such a proceeding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 4, 1937 | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...from the rear and putting me through a perfect somersault. I did not have the slightest idea as to what happened until I came to in the street some moments later, in rather a bloody and dirty mess. In relating this incident afterwards-it seems that we must all tell of our operations and accidents-I have stated that there is only one word that can describe the sensation and that was one from the comic strip, namely: "WHAM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 4, 1937 | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...Bushnell didn't write the couplet or quatrain though it floated around under his aegis for a long time. But he sent it to Dean Frederick Scheetz Jones of Yale, and Jones wrote a reply which undertook to tell a cockeyed world the kind of town New Haven was or is. ... This is what Dean Jones wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 4, 1937 | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...Justice Hugo L. Black, in the historic nationwide radio broadcast last night, told the American people just what he wanted to tell them and nothing more; he carefully avoided all mention of the point they wanted discussed most fully...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BLACK MAN'S BURDEN | 10/2/1937 | See Source »

...first time in a number of years Coach Carr has competitors for every position, and not one competitor but many. In a first squad of 40 men, there aren't ten who aren't capable of becoming first string in any college league. Of course, anyone will tell you that American soccer is in a bad way, so neglected by the schools that now it may Lake three or four years really to develop a college player. And there's no doubt that Coach Carr has got a job on his hands to bring his men to their beat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining them Up | 10/1/1937 | See Source »

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