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Word: tells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glamor of railroading is summed up in two words-Casey Jones. Mention these words to any engineer, fireman or roundhouse worker, and he will immediately be your friend. If he doesn't start singing, he will tell you a pack of grand stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Jones | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...chief textile trades tell the same story. The silk output is nearly double; that of artificial silk about sixfold. Woolen and cotton industries . . . have maintained or increased their output...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Incalculable. . . Prosperity | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...tell you: it was foreign missionaries and merchants. They have broken much land, and often those in charge of such little kingdoms are only two or three foreign women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Other People's Women. . . . | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...expert diagnostician to say that the "old Yale spirit as dead." They should have caught the spirit when it first was taken sick and administered restoratives or something Certainly they were in the strategic position to count the pulse of Yale and they should have been able to tell when it first showed signs of feebleness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 11/27/1928 | See Source »

...second-place teams play each other, the two third-place teams play each other. Then the third-place winner plays the second-place winner. The winner of this series plays the first-place winner; the winner of this final series is, for what reason it is difficult to tell, the World's Champion and the possessor of the Stanley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hockey | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

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