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Word: tells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...immediately recalled me, "because, he said, I had brought to his attention a publication which had consistently retained his interest and admiration. Senator Goff is cultured, crusty, wealthy. I thought it was a high compliment for TIME that he liked it, and I have had it in mind to tell you of the incidents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 21, 1927 | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...year rises higher to coming out parties in the gilded salon above, and proceeds to the ocean of engraved cards of Junior year takes a fairly thorough course in the social graces. He learns to sit down without thought of his coat-tail; he has to be able to tell what he thinks of Koussevitsky; he learns the proper interjections into a discourse that is beyond him. Quite naturally then, he comes by all Mrs. Post and Mr. Hubbard might teach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEACON VS. CHAPEL STREET | 3/17/1927 | See Source »

...genuine Yale type an ogotistical one? Is there a Yale type? Is the genuine Princeton type a pleasant rather self-effacing one? Above all, is this true of the Harvard man? Don't you honestly thing that someone should step in to tell the truth about these matters? I for one do not agree with Miss Kelley when she says: "Of course, all that education can do is to give you the finest use of your natural advantages. I merely say that Harvard best develops a man's sensitivity and social consciousness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 3/17/1927 | See Source »

...under President Harding, but resigned that position to assume the task of straightening out the difficulties which the new and rapidly growing movie industry was encountering. Since he assumed the newly created office, motion picture companies have eliminated many of the evils which formerly retarded their progress. He will tell of what has been done in this industry, and what he expects of its future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WILL HAYS TO TALK AT UNION THIS NOON | 3/15/1927 | See Source »

...What Christian Statesmen are in the pay of Jewish financiers?" Recently Herr Hugo Graefe, potent German landholder, propounded this question in a campaign speech and answered it himself: "My friends, I will tell you one Christian the Jews have bought! Our Foreign Minister [Dr. Gustav Stresemann] has a villa and a castle given him as bribes by Jewish bankers to reveal State secrets and betray the Fatherland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Graefe Strafed | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

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