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Word: tellings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know I am asking a great deal of you but your position will warrant it. In deciding this, lay aside position and loyalty to your party and tell me from the fullness of your heart: What the deuce is a floy-floy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 22, 1938 | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...criticizing the committee or its staff but I regret to see that almost all the information it is getting comes from TVA witnesses, who come on the stand and tell us what they want to tell us, except for what additional facts members of the committee can get out of them by questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER: Checker-Uppers | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...tell where a man has been by the particles on his shoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Crime Seminar | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

Last week the Ripley program took its microphones to Manhattan's Rockefeller Center parking lot to tell listeners that a Hindu mystic, Kuda Bux, was walking barefoot over burning coals. When Kuda Bux demonstrated his fire-walking to British scientists three years ago, they found this stunt genuine, favored the theory that his power is athletic, not psychic, lie in a trained ability to step lightly, quickly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Fire on Air | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

With regret I have to tell you that I have resigned because of irreconcilable differences of opinion with Mr. Pulitzer as to the general conduct of the paper, and am leaving the office Aug. 13. 1 recognize and respect the rights and responsibilities of ownership and make no complaint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Sealed Envelope | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

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