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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time for the inauguration, but a dignified figure in cutaway and silk hat advanced on foot. The crowd stared. "It's the President!" exclaimed a little boy "President Jefferson walked to the Capitol," added his mother dubiously.* "It isn't the President," snapped her husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Day of Days | 3/16/1925 | See Source »

...window to bring him finally to the right door. Traffic in New York puzzles him. He now gets on a street car with an address in his hand and, as he says, "counts". As long as he doesn't cross a bridge, he knows that he isn't too far lost, and is content. He thinks the best prose from the U. S. recently is Don Marquis' great play, The Dark Hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: James Stephens | 3/9/1925 | See Source »

...Borglum: "This is largely a Ku Klux Klan matter. Borglum attacked Dr. Evans, so called Imperial Wizard, very bitterly, and said the latter was sowing hate and discord in the world while he, Borglum, was working to unite peoples. . . . Borglum was not trying to be tactful. . . . Well, Gutzon isn't diplomatic. He's a steam engine in pants. He's a genius. ... If he never does another stroke of work on Stone Mountain, he has to his credit something greater than the Egyptian pyramids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Hoodlum Borglum | 3/9/1925 | See Source »

When asked what interesting things were in London, Mr. Holmes retorted, "What isn't in London? One could spend 20 years there and still not see it all. If I wished to see as much of London as possible in a short time. I should get on top of a bus and spend all the pennies I had just riding about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BURTON HOLMES, FAMED TRAVELER, HAS PRAISE FOR CRIMSON CONTEST JOURNEY | 3/9/1925 | See Source »

...said, "Although pain isn't real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West of Tipperary | 2/23/1925 | See Source »

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