Word: isn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attests the fact that many special trains will bear supporters of the Crimson to within inconvenient walking distance from the Bowl, the prospective passengers are concealed by the bustle of more picturesque travellers. Dull indeed are the ears that have not registered the consternation attendant on the phrase "he isn't sure he can get the car". In fact the less conscientious eavesdropper has found that genuine football pilgrims are characterized by an almost universal lack of assurance...
About 11:30 he said, "There isn't any doubt about it now. Hoover is elected...
...Democratic news. The paper also carries a reply to the communications from Fred A. Simmons, Jr., Boston, managing editor, the most interesting part of which is a post-script in which he says "the managing editor of the News doesn't give a d. . .n who gets elected and isn't old enough to vote anyhow." --Boston Transcript...
...uninitiate reviewer had better hazard no guesses. He can assert, however, that these gentlemen handsomely assist the Advocate's announced intention of making itself both more timely and more readable. Both subjects, the American Legion and a department (or is one point of "The Rally" that, after all it isn't a department?) of the University, are far distant from the preoccupations of the journal ten or fifteen years ago. An editorial board that can recognize the possibility of interesting the undergraduate not only in affairs outside the college but even in those inside it has made a considerable advance...
...accordingly. Feverishly vexed was Mr. Borglum when his contracts were cancelled. He smashed his models (TIME, March 2, 1924 et seq.). Said he: "Am l a plumber to be hired by a committee? I am not. They say that I have loafed on the job, don't they? There isn't a corpuscle of my blood that loafs." The Stone Mountain Association appointed Virginian Sculptor Henry Augustus Lukeman to succeed Mr. Borglum. "Delighted," said Mr. Borglum, with heavy irony...