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Word: tells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reactions to Reader Smith's suggestion that "hitler" be welcomed into the language as a lower-casenoun or verb, meaning a lie or to tell a lie (TIME, Oct. 23) were about equally divided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...Annenberg services throughout the U. S. At that point a Federal judge persuaded Attorney Campbell to let the network stay in operation three more days while he heard arguments. This week thousands of bookies, millions of betters wondered what now. Said an employe of one racing sheet: "Tell 'em not to worry; they'll get their tips. You had prohibition, but you got your whiskey, didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Disconnected? | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...platform and indicated that he wanted to speak to me. 'Mr. Rockefeller is in that car,' he whispered, 'he wants to speak to the miners.' It was difficult for me to believe that anyone could so misunderstand a situation. 'For God's sake tell Mr. Rockefeller to leave here at once,' I replied, 'he may be killed, if these men find out he is here.' " Mr. Rockefeller left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Bannerless Man | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...temper of the U. S. public. And another thing he made perfectly clear was that there is some talk in the U. S. that when the abrogated Trade Treaty of 1911 lapses in January, it might be followed not by a new treaty, but by an embargo. To tell a Japanese that Americans do not like to fight Japan's war for them is not to threaten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Waver Week | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...sport, can be a deadly earnest career, or something that people do just for fun. For professionals, many books have been written. But the man who just likes to sing in the bathtub or twang a lick on the jew's-harp has never had a book to tell him where to go from there. Such a book was published last week by long-nosed "Tune Detective" Sigmund Spaeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Music For Fun | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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