Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...students. A smaller handful still will ever be what some of his colleagues would call men of letters. But even in his short time he made English 31, or whatever they call it now, clearly the best composition course Harvard has had for many years. Any qualified person will tell you, moreover, that in the field of American literature Mr. De Voto's ability can be equalled only with difficulty. I cannot believe that Harvard does not know what everyone knows . . . He actually made his students think. He made the dullest of them think. The dullest of them hereby testifies...
...Oakland, Calif., Darrell Gene Hobbs, 4, was found "lost" by five policemen, offered to tell his name if each contributed a penny. To find his age and his father's name they were tricked into throwing in two more rounds of pennies, later discovered Racketeer Hobbs had collected similarly from solicitous firemen...
Iraq. "Cyclops" means "Round-Eye." The Cyclops of Greek myth was a giant with a single monstrous eye centred in his forehead, who sank ships by throwing boulders at them. Heading another Oriental Institute expedition to Tell Osmar, Dr. Henri Frankfort found evidence that Cyclops was not a Greek invention. On a Babylonian site at least a millennium older than Homer, the diggers discovered a relief carving showing a god with bow & arrow stabbing a Cyclops in the belly with a broad-bladed knife. Rays emanating from Cyclops' head indicate that he was a demon of light or fire...
...vote just as their leaders tell...
Overhearing a policeman tell a woman spectator that he did not know where the fire box was. Giles rushed off in search while Meyers plungers into the building...