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Word: tells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...funniest thing in the world. I sent my father a cable and asked him: 'Why haven't you told me?' " Two days later she had an answer back. Her father told her that he had changed his name 70 years ago and never thought to tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 3, 1949 | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...Stop lying, Fitzgerald," screamed Carey at one point. "The C.I.O. helped build labor-you Communists are against labor . . . I tell you, Fitzgerald, you're not going to take the U.E. out of the C.I.O...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Grounds for Divorce | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

World of Margarac & Mestrovic. In Pennsylvania's steel country, men tell of Hungarian Joe Margarac, who could lift a locomotive with his finger, and his rival, the Slav Steve Mestrovic, who could twist 500-lb. bars of iron with his bare hands; they boiled their eggs in a Bessemer converter and combed their hair with traveling cranes. Margarac and Mestrovic belonged to legend, to Pittsburgh and to an industrial development that had its counterparts but never its equal anywhere in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Mr. Mellon's Patch | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...could tell, the weather did not turn suddenly worse in the third inning; it just got slowly darker until by 5:15 you could see virtually nothing. Once the game started, the umpires also had a sort of moral obligation to continue play. They felt five innings could be played, and they were right...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 9/30/1949 | See Source »

Jaakko will be able to tell more about his squad after the University Handicaps tomorrow. These serve as time trials and determine the personnel who are likely to compete in the opening race against Tufts a week from tomorrow...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Jaakko, 11 Harriers Gird For Cross-Country Season | 9/29/1949 | See Source »

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