tell the meaning of
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Newspapers must tell the meaning of the news .
From Time Magazine Archive
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No great spokesman arose in the U. S. to tell the meaning of this contest.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He must be able to tell the meaning of a distant object or an indistinct trail, for his enemies may have passed that way recently.
From The Western United States A Geographical Reader by Fairbanks, Harold W. (Harold Wellman)
No tongue can tell the meaning of such a ministry, no pen can trace its influence in melting the hardness of the world into pity and gladness.
From The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry by Newton, Joseph Fort
His gesture speaks, but hard to tell the meaning of it is, And thus my yearning without end is ever magnified.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III by Payne, John