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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

When the dance?a "Kaw Special"? was over, there were more speeches. Mrs. Elizabeth Curtis Colvin, sister of "Cousin Charley," stammered: "It isn't my fault, but I want you to know that I?that we? are all very proud of Charley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Curtis Week | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...sentence with 118 words isn't so unusual-try counting one sentence in the preceding script...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 25, 1928 | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

Fools for Luck. Well, if it isn't W. C. Fields and Chester Conklin, again. Goodness me, how those boys are turning out the cinemae. This time, Mr. Fields is an oil stock salesman from the big city. He dupes the folk of Huntersville, including its richest inhabitant (Mr. Conklin). But Nature, happily, brings oil to Mr. Fields' long dry wells. Slapstick, rather sour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jun. 25, 1928 | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

Example: "The phrase 'think for one's self' is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: To Moscow | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

Secondly, If you please, don't term our societies "frats." It isn't being done, besides "Fraternities" sounds much better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 28, 1928 | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

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