Word: tells
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...beauty which I cannot tell...
...birds could not tell that so well...
...moon; I can understand how, in the course of a few millions of years, the earth will go to the dogs [groans]; I can understand the books which my friend Mr. C-k has written [prolonged cheering]; but I can't understand Mr. Shirts's Indian policy. I tell you, gentlemen, that in him are evolution, and protoplasm, and Darwinism complete." [Laughter and applause...
...this inefficiency is doubtless due to the fact that each janitor wishes to make as much money as possible, and therefore hires the cheapest, which is the poorest, help, - in most cases recommended by an intelligence office. On this account, too, changes are constantly taking place, and one cannot tell, when he goes to bed, who will come in the morning to make his fire and set his room in order. To this fact, more than any other, may be attributed the many thefts which have occurred of late in College buildings...
...Calendar goes back on me, I feel - nay, I know - that the Somerville Society of Naturals will welcome to its midst one of Harvard's bright particular stars. Good Heavens! what do I know? - or rather, what don't I know? At a Greek reading, I can tell you the style of worm they used for fishing in the Pliocene Age, and how many fish they caught on an average with each worm. I can tell you more. I can tell you why worms crawl, why the Nine muffs, why Juniors jodel. At a lecture on the Vedas, I could...