Word: tells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...States grew so mutually jealous that in 1790 it was necessary to set aside the District of Columbia." If you don't know better the causes of the setting aside of the District of Columbia, let Mr. W. E. Woodward, whom you so much admire (TIME, April 25) tell you: "Eighty soldiers mutinied at Lancaster, Pa., in June, 1783. They marched on Philadelphia and appeared in front of the State House where Congress was in session. Congress called on the Executive Council of Pennsylvania, meeting in the same building, for protection, but the Council was afraid to bring...
...Some say he had "a boyishly stern squint"; others proclaim him a practical joker and tell how he once answered his roommate's desire for a drink of water with a glass of kerosene. He is 25, more than six feet tall, rangy, handsome, blond. He knows flying as the barnstormer with a $250 plane and as the chief pilot for the St. Louis-Chicago air mail route. He is a prominent member of the Caterpillar Club, having four times become a butterfly and descended to earth in a parachute. In the Missouri National Guard he earned the rank...
Frank Tinney (stage comedian) began a Scottish bagpipe act in a second-rate Chicago cabaret, appeared to falter, was helped from the stage. Next day he said: "Tell the world I'm neither sick nor broke...
...relations formed with Harvard graduates. We want information, prices, forecasts. Is coal going up or down? How about oil? Where can we buy this or that? Where are the trade customs and agreements? We must have advice on legal or other points. We have only to ask a graduate, tell him that the information is for Harvard, and every door is opened for us, every book is at our disposal, and even the busiest official seems glad to interrupt his work and give us all the time...
...would turn bluish and eventually die. This has been known since Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, whom French Revolutionists guillotined* in 1794, named the gas. But the reason has been learned only recently-by C. A. Binger, J. M. Faulkner and R. L. Moore. In the Journal of Experimental Medicine they tell how the thin membrane of the lungs, through which oxygen reaches the blood, becomes swollen. Oxygen cannot pass through; the person practically suffocates...