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Word: tells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...dealt most carefully and scientifically with production, but there it has stopped. It has examined minutely the science of raising food and getting it to the retail dealer as cheaply as possible, but it has not yet gone on to teach the consumer his part of the work, to tell him how to dispose of his share of the food without waste...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Finance Club Lecture. | 3/11/1891 | See Source »

...Beach of Cambridge conducted the service in Appleton Chapel last evening and took for his text the 17th to 21st verses of the nineteenth chapter of St. Matthew. The verses tell the story of the young lawyer who asked what he should do to inherit eternal life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Appleton Chapel. | 3/9/1891 | See Source »

...strain to his devotional instincts. The upholders of the mimic scene were quite as striking figures in the boy's memory of what in Southwark he may have seen and must have heard. He could hardly have remembered the "forenoone knell of the great bell," as the church records tell the story, when Edmund Shakspere, in 1607, was buried in St. Saviour's, and when it is fair to suppose that the dead player's brother William was among the mourners. Indeed, this church of St. Saviour's must be reckoned-if we are not too iconoclastic-among the three...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Winsor's Letter about Southwark. | 2/20/1891 | See Source »

HARVARD ELECTRIC CLUB.- There will be a meeting of the Harvard Electric Club at its room on Friday at 7.30. Lieut. J. B. Cahoon, now with the Thomson Houston Electric Co., formerly at the Newport Torpedo Station, will tell some interesting news about the latest railway motors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notice. | 2/19/1891 | See Source »

...Exeter; there was a deal of enthusiasm in the cause, and plans were proposed which promised well. But now, in this very short time, all interest in the club seems to have died out. If we might be pardoned for a free expression of our opinion, we should tell the Harvard Exeter Club that it is no longer a matter of their convenience, but that it is now a duty which Harvard demands shall be fulfilled that Harvard be not made to appear so indifferent in the eyes of sub-freshmen at Exeter. We cannot afford to ignore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/10/1890 | See Source »

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