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Word: tells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...auditorium of the Department of the Interior Building, President Coolidge saw Tell It to the Marines, a cinema...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week: Jan. 17, 1927 | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...very exceptional student who has the initiative or the vision to be able to do so. Mere hard work and a desire to succeed do not uniformly bring results. Leaving the delights of scholarship out of the question, it is a soul-satisfying thing to be able to tell the butter and egg men that a group of successful and hardheaded lawyers have found that a college education is off practical value...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARD KNOCKS VS. HISTORY | 1/11/1927 | See Source »

...health al most every winter; but this year, for the first time since his eclipse as Premier, he was officially welcomed and fêted near Saint Raphael by the local Prefect and representatives of the French Government. "I was astonished," said Mr. Lloyd George afterwards. "I tell you they'll be naming a street after me next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Three Crises | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

...Highness stepped upon the platform as another special rolled in bound for Trenton, N. J. Therein a lean-faced gentleman sat reading a handful of clippings about Nicaragua (see p. 8). The lean, thoughtful gentleman went on reading, and the tall prince waited. Then, since loutish railwaymen failed to tell the President of the U. S. that Prince Chichibu waited, the presidential special coasted through Baltimore, gathered speed and vanished, while the President read on, oblivious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Personable Prince | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

...before his birds become his angels, skates on the fens like a big bird himself. Part is earthiness: angry yokels plow a furrow across the vicarage lawn, plow up the doorstep, with three chestnut horses steaming and gleaming on a snowy morning. Part is uneasy: a weathercock whines; people tell their dreams; once Mr. Dunnock stuffs his beard quickly into his mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Girl into Woman | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

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