Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rear of Fred Marriot's garage midway between Newton Corner and Watertown. Marriot achieved lasting fame a generation ago when, as Stanley's chief test driver, he took off from a sandy stretch of beach in a steamer at 190 miles an hour and lived to tell the tale...
...named Patrick Geddes, a biologist trained under the great Thomas Henry Huxley. Geddes had turned to sociology and to the study of Edinburgh and other cities. Mumford became a student of New York. Within the next few years he covered the city systematically on foot, studied architecture, learned to tell the approximate date c tenement was built from a glance at the fire escape or the cornice...
...bugs, a sturdy Cimex might survive for years on end. The one condition: plenty to eat and no trouble getting it. Running after food was the prime cause of mortality among his experimental bugs. How long a really pampered bedbug could live, Researcher Mellanby's report did not tell...
...minutes after Policeman S. C. Hopkins of Washington, Ga. jailed a Negro woman for fighting, he was confronted on his beat by the same woman. Said she: "Don't get mad with me. I didn't break out of jail. I just come down here to tell you the back door is open...
...marriage or its promise, and three others salute the beginnings of romance in their last sentences. The favorite story of Post writers is that of an inconspicuous worthy who is pushed around at first, finally comes out on top, usually triumphing over some flashier rival in the process. They tell it expertly, with no waste motions, sometimes with humor, frequently with a good deal of technical information thrown in-about steel mills, prize fights, greyhound racing, navigation. Except for Thomas Wolfe's story of racial conflict, The Child by Tiger, and Walter Edmonds' tale of a white woman...