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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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What more natural? And yet, because it isn't customary, it has dumfounded everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 8, 1926 | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

...National Zoological Park at Washington. It had come to Mr. Chrysler's ears that disappointed children were in the habit of asking keepers in the Zoo: "Where's the giraffes? Where's a rhinoc'rus?" The answer was, "There aren't any. There isn't even a zebra here." The money that came forth was designated to effect the capture of giraffes, rhinoceroses, zebras and "anything else needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Natural Historians | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

...first experience cost a 20-franc note for a one-franc service. They don't know the meaning of the word "change." The insipid Harry Pilcer was the leading (?) attraction, and I must say that he did the United States a great favor when he departed Parisward. Paris isn't wild about Americans, but we will go there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 1, 1926 | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

...ejaculated before reporters: "Thank God, this isn't British justice. In England a person is not guilty until proved guilty. Here he is guilty whether he is innocent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: Moral Turpitude | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

...never been better. We realize that this statement may not create much of a sensation, but we wanted to put it in anyway. The truth of the matter is that Miss Miller bears a most striking resemblance to the first girl we ever fell for. And if that isn't just cause for liking her, what...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

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