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Word: telling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

Ennyway, if they's enny TIME readers thet want ter join my "Former Apple Butter Stirrers' Society Per The Purpose of Promulgatin, Promotin and Perpetuatin Memories of Apple Butter Stirrin Days" jest tell 'em ter write me at No. 318 S. State Street, Marion, Ohio, and I'll see thet they get the proper identifyin kredentials-without spendin a penny or agreein ter nothin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 6, 1937 | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

...Tell us, please, did Professor Wieland actually stoop to plagiarism in the heat of his controversy with Secretary Ickes or did TIME'S Science editor err in identifying an apt quotation as an "original composition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 6, 1937 | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

...that's perfectly clear. Now tell me, please, what the Freshmen are like." And the man with the big brown eyes smiled back. Now they understood each other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 9/1/1937 | See Source »

...Tell a Freshman at a glance?" this time the Vagabond broke in. "This seems to be a game of questions and answers, and a one-sided game indeed. You answer that question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 9/1/1937 | See Source »

...Right," said the portly man. "You can tell a Freshman at a glance by the inexperienced manner in which he smokes his pipe, by the fifty per cent way he turns up his coat collar, and by the noise he makes with his friends in public. Right? I used to be a Freshman myself. But let me ask you another question, and that, I promise, is all. What do others at Harvard think of the Freshmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 9/1/1937 | See Source »

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