Word: tells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writing to tell you that this statement in regard to the school's loss is an error. We suffered a loss of more than $300,000, but the insurance . . . was only about 10% of the . . . loss. We carried $25,000 insurance on the building . . . $9,500 on the contents...
...criticized for telling the truth by these two Senators? Is it because of demands made upon them by Catholic constituents? Is it because of a presidential ambition on the part of one? What is it in this thing that prompts two Senators to stand up here and insult the Protestant people of America by attacking a Protestant Senator for daring to tell the truth about the efforts of a Catholic organization to involve our country in a foreign war? . . . I have no apology to make to the Senator from Missouri, and I do not fear in the least the thrusts...
...comprehensive decision handed down by Associate Justice Van Devanter. This decision, besides authorizing the Senate to act on the case of Mally S. Daugherty, is of immediate concern to several other gentlemen: Harry F. Sinclair, who refused to answer in the oil investigations; Samuel Insull, who did not tell all he knew concerning the Frank L. Smith primary campaign fund; Thomas Cunningham, who defied Senator James A. Reed in the William S. Vare slush investigations...
...Secretary then informed reporters that he could tell them nothing more because it took so long to decode Admiral Williams' messages that before one could be decoded another arrived. One report, when finally decoded, was found so terrifying that Mr. Kellogg withheld it from the public to avoid undue alarm...
...turned to that subject. My brother Jim, in the Yale-Princeton game of the previous year, had had his nose severely pummelled, three ribs broken, his leg kicked, and bruised, and flesh gouged from his body. They laughed, and said: "Now that you are on the inside, we can tell you all about that. The night before the game, we, the football squad of Princeton, were shown a picture of your brother's nose, and we were instructed to smash that nose every time we got near it." "But there were bits of flesh torn from the other parts...