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Word: tells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kenary was still not dressed for practice and he and Mofile definitely will be out for the Cornell game. It is too early to tell the status of the other three but Houston ran signals yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Runs Through Long Workout, Readies for Cornell | 10/4/1949 | See Source »

...emissary from the isle of Stromboli named Monroe E. McDonald landed in Manhattan to tell an anxious nation the true story about Cinemactress Ingrid Bergman and Italy's gifted Director Roberto Rossellini. To Hearst's Manhattan Gossipist Cholly Knickerbocker, Lawyer McDonald confided that Ingrid's husband, Dr. Peter Lindstrom, was a strong, masterful man, to whom she had always given obedience and respect, but never true love. But when chubby, balding Director Rossellini came to Hollywood with a movie in mind, Ingrid was thrilled at the very idea of working for him. It was not until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Footloose | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...spoil the bass business." But one of the prints had been preserved by Dr. Mario Marafioti, onetime Met physician and friend of Caruso, and Narrator Wally (Voices That Live) Butterworth had persuaded him to let a new master be cut from his copy. He also persuaded Madame Alda to tell her story on the other side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Night at the Opera | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...mummy, one of 400 discovered in the dry soil of the Paracas Peninsula, did not look like much. It was a pumpkin-shaped bundle of coarse brown cloth some 5 ft. in diameter. No one could tell what was in it. Other such likely-looking mummy bundles have turned out to contain beans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fancy Wrapping | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...potato surplus in 1947, the Department of Agriculture last year restricted the acreage. But farmers simply planted rows closer together and presented CCC with a bumper crop of 446 million bushels. Net loss to date: $203 million. In the coming potato season Congress may get tougher and tell farmers, not how many acres they can plant, but how many bushels they can grow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Wild Harvest | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

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