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Word: tells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Copley at 8.20 "The Bellamy Trall". Bellamy and Bon Ami, you know. You can wash windows with Bon Ami, but they tell us this is a play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/17/1928 | See Source »

After citing the notorious inconsistency of Editor White in estimating public char acters, Nominee Robinson said: "Let me tell you what Mr. White has said. ... He has described Herbert Hoover as a "fat, pudgy capon sitting on eggs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Votes Oct. 15, 1928 | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...Angel of the Lord bade Moses tell his people that when the Passover came they should sacrifice lambs and smear their doors with the blood, that the Angel of Death, passing by, might know where righteous men lived. Long after the death of Moses, Jews celebrated their Passover with the death of lambs; and in the ghettos of walled cities, there were bloody marks upon the doors. In the Middle Ages, when the Jews were hated most bitterly by Christians, the legend arose that the blood upon their doors was that of Christian children whom Jews deemed the most suitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Red Mass | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

People who have been solicited for money to support, treat and cure lepers last week received a worthwhile shock. Few have seen lepers. They have read about lepers in the Bible and medieval histories; they have heard doctors and missionaries tell of the silvery horror. But it has been easy to believe that science was curing leprosy, that money to fight the disease was not badly needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Leprosy Missionaries | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...Crimson offense netted 16 first downs in all as against four for the invaders, figures which tell the story of the game themselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POWERFUL ATTACK DOWNS CAROLINA | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

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