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Word: tells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Where's Dick Harlow? We can't let him hide behind that column of cigar smoke any longer. Step up and tell us about the gooseggs you collected Saturday, Dick...

Author: By D. D. P., | Title: WHATS HIS NUMBER? | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...Tell me, Ralpho, where...

Author: By Jack Wllner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Psychologists tell us that war, depression, crime, labor troubles, and race prejudice have their roots in mental processes. But they have been loath to apply their convictions to the correction of social error. Rather they have chosen to measure intelligence, the speed with which rats learn how to thread a maze in order to reach food and the like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scientific Scrapbook | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Lord Gort carefully toasted President Roosevelt and paid special deference to the correspondents by saying: "We really welcome your presence here to tell your people what we are doing in France. We regard you as our cooperators and collaborators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Bearskins at Home | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Waiting to greet them was Swedish King Gustaf V, but discreet silence on tense public occasions is the duty of a constitutional monarch, and His Majesty left it to Stockholm City Councilman Frederick Storm to tell Finland's President what all Swedes were thinking: "If anything wrong should happen to one Scandinavian country it would be of the utmost importance to all of them. Any wound made on any nation in our group would always be an open wound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORDIC STATES: Mighty Fortress | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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