Word: tellings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs : At a large gathering here a friend said he was sure the Hughes flight proved something -just what it was he thought the Editor of TIME might reveal. Will you tell me who put up the money...
...sure that Bud Fisher could tell you, however, of a time some years ago when he did just that. According to my memory, once while President Coolidge was vacationing, Mutt and Jeff journeyed to the Black Hills for a several-days' visit with him. Having proudly attired themselves in formal clothes for their first meeting with their host, they were bowled over when the President cheerily greeted them wearing a cowboy costume. PAUL W. KEVE...
Long before William Tell displayed his skill with bow & arrow, Saxon wood carvers engaged in a sport called Vogelschiessen (shooting at wooden birds perched on poles). Last week, at Saxony Rest near Milwaukee, 400 of their U. S. descendants gathered for their annual jamboree and Vogelschiessen tournament...
...Wallace, of course, was not so crass as to tell American farmers that they must take a number, must carry a card. Any farmer who wants to do so may grow all the cotton he pleases, store it in his barn, light a cigar with his AAA pasteboard and go unpunished. Mr. Wallace simply told cotton buyers, who are not a big or politically potent class, that upon them rests the burden of properly identifying the cotton. Furthermore, buyers, on pain of $500 fine, must strictly observe an AAA color line...
...authors talk learnedly of "core courses" (e.g., "learning about living," in which English, science and social science are combined), tell what they did every step of the way through the six years. When they came to a new subject (such as communication), they divided into small groups to tackle separate topics, sent individual members out to hunt the answers to questions about the origin of human speech, the telephone, printing presses. By senior year they had explored many fields that ordinary high-school students seldom know-Columbus slums. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., the position of women...