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Word: tells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: TIME has been my favorite magazine since it first appeared; and hence I wish to tell you of an impressive scene which I witnessed yesterday in New York City while riding on the subway. I got on a downtown express at the Grand Central Station about 11 a.m. ; and sitting across from me was a most distinguished looking old gentleman reading TIME. He sat up very straight, holding the magazine before him; and I was glad to see that several people on my side of the car were attracted by the bright red border of TIME'S cover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 14, 1927 | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

What happened from this point or, Leys will tell tonight. Since the completion of his unusual race, he has returned to China and Japan. With the wanderlust still holding him, Leys continued his journeys to Hawaii, Mexico, Guatemala, Columbia, Ecuador and Peru. Plumer is now working in China...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEYS TO TELL OF HIS RACE AROUND GLOBE | 2/9/1927 | See Source »

...Calvin Coolidge: "Some say that if I had not married Calvin Coolidge, I would have become the ideal dean of a women's college. But the wives of Presidents, as well as deans, must have tact. That, my friends tell one another, is my most important characteristic. Then too, as everyone knows, I love flowers, am an able gardener, play the piano, keep an accurate baseball score, knit. An enterprising researcher once announced that I am the first co-ed to be the First Lady of the Land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Birthday Party | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

...case of pyorrhea. But, like other dentists, he has not known the cause. Nor does he know yet, although, he said last week, he has developed a treatment which has seemed to cure more than 200 cases. Just what the scientific basis of his treatment is he planned to tell first to the Clinical Society of Unity Hospital, Brooklyn, where he is the attending dentist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pyorrhea | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

...assets $1,394,389,890. But it is not the largest financial institution, President Fiske knew. But he would not spoil President Mitchell's day of publicity. He would wait until the annual meeting of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., and then he would tell the facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Assets | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

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