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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...results aren't too amazing, for the simple reason that Barnet doesn't have the soloists to play Duke's stuff, and his fast Basic tunes fall apart because his rhythm section just isn't equal to the task...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 11/10/1939 | See Source »

...cemeteries, and when I stood there I felt a kind of rage and a kind of anguish. The damned folly of life has caught us again and the sons of those who died are going to be the victims of another evil spell. Can it be possible or isn't it just a nightmare from which we shall all wake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Winkles on Pins | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...women haggling at a fruit stand, batting practice in the Cubs' ball park (where he once sold score-cards), knobby bathers by Lake Michigan. Says he: "The shabbier parts of Chicago are what intrigue me." Less intrigued is Mrs. Frank Granger Logan ("Sanity in Art"), who stormed "It isn't worth a nickel," when a Bohrod picture of a filling station won top honors and her $500 prize at the 1937 Chicago Art Institute exhibition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Optimistic Realist | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

CAMBRIDGE, November 3 (WUPS)--Say, Bokum and Wilson Harvard White wash Tigers. Spreyer Crimson score Grose fast, if it a Pearson further thought. The Wieman's chance isn't Worth much--Weishelt, he can't Winston, Were going to Wade through little Aubray. If we can Helden the Balentine we'll Tierney down the field. Oh Meyerhols your breath. But all your Jackson the Crimson for all's Wells that ends well. Alterdice are for Harvard--Will Rice to the occasion...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey occ., | Title: DIXON WAY: WIEMAN EXPECT A HARLOW-EEN TRICK--HUEY | 11/3/1939 | See Source »

...comment upon the letter of Professor J. A. McLaughlin appearing in your columns today? It annoys me from several points of view. Isn't it the boast of Harvard's staff that "we teach our students to think for themselves"? Then why be snippy when actually...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 10/27/1939 | See Source »

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