Word: tells
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...cannot tell them, as other classes have been told, to make a success, to win large rewards, that, returning a quarter of a century hence, they may be proud with the pride of possession. The old ambitions have departed...
...agitation of the last months for that military preparedness which we so direly needed, the East, with lordly superiority, assumed to tell the West and the Middle West how much broader was its vision and how much deeper was its patriotism. Now that war editorials in the Eastern city papers have taken second place in the nation's war plans to the demand for men, and pretty words have lost, like the problematical salt, their savor, the West and the Middle West are citing their larger contributions in men to our fighting forces as proof of their true and actual...
...great misfortune. The Monthly, however much it may have been without honors in its own country, has filled to a certain extent the important post of Devil's Advocate amid the blatant orthodoxy of undergraduate life. And it has filled it, as anyone outside of College will tell you, with no little distinction. The Monthly has fallen a prey to all the ills that flesh is heir to, has had periods of wild absurdity and of utter dullness; but it has ever avoided that smiling self-complacency which is the predominating note of our other College papers. Nowhere, however, does...
...must not spoil good material for officers by enlisting aimlessly now, or until special circumstances arise to warrant such action. For the present, Yale men should content themselves with making themselves fit to answer the call when it comes. The draft plan may fail, for it is impossible to tell how serious the resistance in certain districts will become. Then the only thing to do will be to call for volunteers, and then, perhaps, it will be the duty of all Yale...
When the seismograph is sufficiently sensitive it is possible to tell not only the position of the hostile artillery, but also its calibre--the last requiring a practised eye. It is also possible to distinguish in the tremors recorded by the instrument the difference between shocks produced by the fall of projectiles, and those caused by the recoil of the guns. It is through the shock produced by the fall of the projectile that the calibre of the firing battery may be determined...