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Word: tells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...twenty-five years are men who have as yet no more than entered upon that period of life when the mind is strongest, the period from forty-five to sixty; so that we are warned not to expect too much. Again, through want of perspective it is difficult to tell who are in reality prominent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD GRADUATES. | 3/9/1877 | See Source »

There seems to be no one on the Era board who is able to translate French. The paper translates all the quotations from other languages which it uses; but a person who could tell what is meant when the Era, referring to a man who has left college, says, "the corps has lost a most genial confrere," would be an addition to the editorial staff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 3/9/1877 | See Source »

...emulate the Father of his Country, and an especially good opportunity to do so was given yesterday. As he was in the habit of cutting apple-trees, we might have cut examinations, and when requested by the Dean to show cause, the answer would be ready, - "I cannot tell a lie, I was sick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/23/1877 | See Source »

...There! Tell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT WOULDST, MY BOY? | 2/23/1877 | See Source »

...cannot tell thee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT WOULDST, MY BOY? | 2/23/1877 | See Source »

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