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Word: tellings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robinson of Union Theological Seminary, stood on the site of Armageddon, but failed to recognize it. In Robinson's day archeology was more a matter of looking for surface indications than laborious, carefully planned digging. The site was one of the flat-topped mounds which the natives call tells. This particular one, Tell-el-Mutesellim, was picked as the probable site of Armageddon by Harold Haydon Nelson of the University of Chicago, and the university's Rockefeller-endowed Oriental Institute started digging there in 1925. The diggers found the palace of the Egyptian princes with a gaudily painted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Armageddon | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...talk to a TVA employe who has not been arranged through him." Representative Jenkins charged into the battle. In the ensuing exchange of bellows, he asked TVA's lawyer, James Lawrence Fly: "Have you any arrangement with Mr. Biddle whereby you know everything they [the employes] tell Dr. Morgan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER: More Morgan | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

Most striking feature of Arthur Morgan's testimony was his willingness to weaken his case rather than tell half-truths. Witness Morgan first declared that TVA's General Manager John Blandford was "one of the little clique that run things," and lacked the background necessary for the job. Then Witness Morgan added that he himself hired Mr. Blandford away from a job as Cincinnati's public safety director, rued the choice later. In the same implacably veracious vein. Arthur Morgan pointed out that he: 1) signed board minutes which he now says were doctored by David Lilienthal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER: More Morgan | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

...style of newswriting" that aims to be "instantly readable and listenable." President Moore, whose hobbies are supercharged foreign cars and "revolutionary word forms in poetry," abjures the orthodox "who, what, when, where" formula. His reporters must give all the facts, but not necessarily in the first paragraph. They must tell their story "the way a man would break the news to his wife that the boss had given him a raise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: T. P. | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

...nights later, plump, matronly Amateur Hall stayed up until 4 a. m. to tell Pitcairners that Manhattan's British Consulate had cabled the High Commissioner of Suva, Fiji, to help them. Samaritan Mrs. Hall has talked to Pitcairn every night since. Said she: "I have never been anywhere, but my voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Pitcairn Island | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

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