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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most of this week's talk about the Springfield eleven has been propaganda; it isn't bad. I don't want you to think that, but then it isn't too good either. Harvard will win without undue exertion by about 28 to 2. That 2, incidentally, is purely a courtesy gesture on my part; of course they won't actually score...

Author: By Dr. HU Flung huey, | Title: DR. HUEY SAYS SPRINGFIELD ISN'T SO STRONG AS RATED | 10/11/1930 | See Source »

...happy, I guess it don't matter where you are. A little tin box of chocolate tablets fits in the pockets of your overalls or it fits in the pocket of your fine longtail dinner coat. That settles it." And the copy continued on the theme: "Happiness isn't a matter of location?you've got to carry it with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Two Campaigns | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

...college days has turned to a hearty "Haw-haw!" among a certain group of Milwaukeeans. They are the boys who once were the Crimson and relished nothing so much as seeing the Blue dragged in the dust. Their laugh--well, you know it isn't a tender...

Author: By Milwaukee Journal., | Title: "Where Yuh Been?" | 9/25/1930 | See Source »

...point of view may seem beyond need of comment, but there are hundreds of American college alumni now living who heard nothing like it during their undergraduate days. Twenty years ago at almost any Eastern college the head coach exhorted the incoming freshman somewhat as follows: "Now remember, it isn't enough to attend every game. No matter whether or not you can play any football, you fellows--all of you--be down at the field each afternoon to watch the practice. Show that team you're behind it every minute of the season!" And when the coach had said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Root Hog or Die! | 9/24/1930 | See Source »

...domestic consumption basis in grain if stock feeders would use wheat. . . . There isn't a bushel of grain too much in this country now. But a lot of damned rubes are doing what their grandfathers did, selling wheat at 70? a bushel and buying corn at $1 for feed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Crops This Month | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

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