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Word: tells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sing Launderers claimed, however, faculty members brought in as many tell-tale shirts as students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Careless Love Smudges on Crimson Laundry Reveal Lurid Shirt Tales | 11/15/1949 | See Source »

Nobody was sure who started the rough stuff. The important difference was that Army did not allow its own share in the Donnybrook to take its mind off such chores as blocking and pass defense. And slowly Army's class began to tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scuffling Cinderellas | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

This is only one of the stories Aussies tell about the twomile, hell-for-leather cup race that is now far & away the biggest sporting event of teh Australian year. In 1930, when bookies were faced with bankruptcy if Phar Lap won, a car pulled up near the great horse after a workout and a rifle cracked several times. The bullets did not touch Phar Lap (and he ran and won). But in 1941 a horse name El Golea was shot by gamblers who had mistaken him for a stablemate, the red-hot Melbourne Cup favorite, Beau Vite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Day Down Under | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...Hawks had won, 4-1 (and ten stitches had been taken in the first citizen's head), Reardon and Gravelle were led off to the police station, booked and released under $200 bail. Next week when the Canadiens play in Chicago again, they will have a chance to tell the judge all about it. Charges: assault with deadly weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Timber! | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...biggest dairies. He branched out into investment banking, became a partner in Detroit's McDonald-Moore & Co. (a connection he severed when he joined SEC). Still a salesman, McDonald's first step as SEC boss last week was to call in his division chiefs and tell them to "make this agency one of the best in town to do business with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: G.O.P. for SEC | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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