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Word: telling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boys down at the Grange don't bother much with international politics but they tell me Secretary Wallace has dedicated a song to the AAA's fallow acres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 14, 1938 | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

After a long hunt they found Ellsworth Schindler, who had meantime become a power on the reservation, one of eight governing councilors of the Seneca Nation. Haled to court because he refused to tell where his car was, Ellsworth Schindler last week still refused to tell. Jailed for contempt of court, the taciturn red man was unperturbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Seneca | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Chastened and hoarse after a campaign which he lost by a handful of votes, Michael A. Sullivan, unsuccessful candidates for the state legislature, showed flashes of his old form yesterday afternoon when he said, "Landis is a carpetbagger who came here from the West and tried to tell the people of Cambridge how to run their own government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SULLIVAN, 'KNIEED' BY G. O. P. CALLS LANDIS 'CARPETBAGGER' | 11/10/1938 | See Source »

...Thorndike says he usually doesn't listen to what the player says he usually doesn't list to what the players says about how he feels. "I make muscle and ligament function tests," he declared. "They tell the truth." Has a boy a serious enough injury to make it worse if he continues? is the question he asks himself in case there is doubt about someone staying in the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Twelve Doctors Always Ready to Give Professional Aid to Football's Injured | 11/9/1938 | See Source »

Taking the game as a whole, it is really impossible to tell if or how much Harvard improved over the Princeton clash. Chicago brought a scrappy, courageous team which looked very flashy and tricky for a while, but the eleven was in such poor condition that the latter part of the encounter was distinctly harrowing, and the same early flashiness and trick stuff later on looked very much like a pick-up game...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: Chicago Coach Rates Harvard Great Team After 47-13 Rout | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

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