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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...isn't to blame; it's his heredity and environment. Agreed. Environments that breed crimes and criminals should be destroyed. As for heredity. . . . Perhaps the mothers should be hanged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 6, 1939 | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...baseball championship from under our noses, it gives as great glee to see what happened to the Wearers of the Green last Saturday. First of all, the Indians were scalped in a skiing meet by the University of New Hampshire at a winter carnival in Durham, which isn't as serious as it seems because some of the Hanoverians were away at the Maine meet in Rumford. Then from New Haven we received the news that the Big Green swimming team had been ducked decisively 54-21, only taking one event. Not that Hall Ulen feels too happy over Yale...

Author: By Joseph P. Lyford, | Title: WHAT'S HIS NUMBER? | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...close friend. He turned to novels, under Anderson's influence, wrote Soldiers' Pay. Mrs. Anderson volunteered to get Sherwood to read the book, to recommend it to Publisher Horace Liveright if he liked it. Next day she brought it back, saying. "Sherwood says if he isn't required to read this, he'll try to get Liveright to publish it." Liveright accepted it, gave Faulkner advances of $200 apiece on the next two. He dashed off Mosquitoes, was halfway through his third novel, Sartoris, when something happened. He was writing about his own country when suddenly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: When the Dam Breaks | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

Strange how viewpoints change, isn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 16, 1939 | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...House of Commons since 1919, "that I wouldn't think of accepting an invitation to meet him if one were offered me. I loathe dictators and all they stand for. The most horrible thing Hitler has done is to warp the lives of Jewish children. Isn't it awful we can't tell what this lunatic is going to do next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: I Loathe Dictators | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

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