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Word: tells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, March 28). Let me tell you TIME, that almost any woman in North Carolina can have five children; and furthermore almost any of our women who has proper care taken of herself while she is having five (or eight) children can play tennis afterwards as if nothing had happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 2, 1927 | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...been convicted of violating a law of the land. It is a recognized fact that there are a great many laws which are violated every day. Some people are too good to obey the laws, or too thirsty. As a result of this constant violation it is hard to tell what is right and what is wrong." He went on to show that neither laws nor religions could determine right and wrong and proved his statements with forceful examples. "It can not be conscience that determines this difference," he went on, "for that is merely a state of mind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARROW CONDEMNS OUR LEGAL SYSTEM IN TALK | 4/30/1927 | See Source »

Queen Mary did not seem embarrassed or say, "Shh!" Her face lighted, she nodded, and with a royal finger discreetly indicated to Sir James a door. He should go through, and turn thus and thus. Then he would find Nurse Knight and should tell her by the Queen-Empress' command to show him the Sleeping Princess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sleeping Princess | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

Subtitles in the manuscript tell the story of the rattling, crashing, squeaking, honking burlesque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fliver 10,000,000 | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

...Lowell stated that he cult that the police had overstepped their duties in using clubs in their encounter with the students, which took place over two months ago on February 12. Chief McBride replied that he was not in a position to discharge the men but that he would tell them of President Lowell's request. Later in the day he saw two of the patrolmen, both of whom refused to resign and the other two, when interviewed stated that they had no intentions of giving up their positions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOWELL DEMANDS RESIGNATION OF FOUR PATROLMEN | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

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