Word: tells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Attorney-General, Mrs. Mabel Elizabeth Walker Willebrandt, "personification of Prohibition." In view of the Hoover promise to appoint a commission to investigate the "grave abuses" now suffered by the "experiment noble in motive," newsgathering speculation ran to unanswered questions like this: Was the President-Elect asking Mrs. Willebrandt to tell Col. Donovan all she knew about Prohibition so that the redoubtable Colonel could make plans for stricter enforcement? Or was this conference preliminary to a great "Hoover investigation...
...proper balance between hydrogen (acid) ions and hydroxyl (alkaline) ions is essential to health and normal cell growth. Too much alkalinity lets cells grow wild. That is one reason why radium and x-rays are used to treat cancer. They make blood acidulous. If doctors could easily and quickly tell the blood's hydrogen ion strength, they could use proper therapeutic means to prevent and treat cancer...
...Honegger's Rugby a successful première. In the U. S., Composer Honegger is famed for his Pacific 231 through which he sniffs and snorts to resemble a giant locomotive. His Rugby, long heralded, is a sound picture of a football match in which smart, broken rhythms tell the struggle of the players, the excitement of the crowd...
...Mesopotamia. Some bread, wheat, barley, peas and pistachio nuts were dumped into the bins of a great temple at Kirkuk, Iraq, some 3.500 years ago. They were still there, although carbonized, when diggers recently uncovered the building. Nearby was the home of a rich family. Clay records tell of their marriages and adoptions, their business in slaves, securities, and goods, their loans, deposits and lawsuits...
...Famous Fifty-nine dribbled through unknown channels into the coffers of Black, Starr & Frost. Some they have had for 20 years. Others were collected by their agents in Continental and Eastern markets. Where they may have nestled, whence they may have come, no man can tell save only this: none is "old;" i.e., has ever been worn. As each pearl came in, experts scrutinized; demanded flawless texture, absolute sphericity, iridescent blush. A dozen, a score passed muster. The necklace was conceived. Pearl by perfect pearl, it grew until six months ago the fifty-ninth completed the only famous necklace...