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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what they're arguing about!" said the former representative. "The Massachusetts law isn't as harsh as other states' laws." He was amazed at the statement that the oath law places a stigma on the teaching profession. "No, no!" he cried, "the oath law doesn't accuse the teachers, it honors them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dorgan, on Oath Bill Doomsday, Feels That His Brain-Child Honors Teachers | 3/17/1937 | See Source »

...Isn't half as dull as it might appear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VERSATILE DEAN | 3/13/1937 | See Source »

...clashes have been so staggered by the H.A.A. that the spectator may witness both of them. But the spectator had best arrive early for the basketball game, for those 2000 seats are going to go early, and if he isn't lucky enough to have one of those valuable little pasteboards for the swimming meet, he might as well not even bother to try and get in but sit back and listen to it over WAAB...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWIMMING, BASKETBALL OUTFITS ARE IN FINAL DRIVE TO DEFEAT YALE | 3/12/1937 | See Source »

...That isn't so bad. But if any young thing wanders into the inner depths of the magazine, where they continue the stories, she finds the answer to the squirmer's prayer--something with a "Y-front," presumably for Yale men, which protects squirmers from becoming "nervous nonentities" and "makes sitting a joy." Soon comes Mr. 1937 stepping out in "the new order of the day in next-to-body wear for men," which for a nominal fee gives you "a flat midriff and a military swing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Off Key | 3/10/1937 | See Source »

Italian opponents are lucky for Don Diablo. His most important victim before Venturi was Carlo Orlandi, onetime champion of Europe. When they met in 1935, Orlandi won the first seven rounds and Manager Burston begged his man to get busy. Said Devil Montanez: "This fight isn't over yet. They'll pick him up off the floor. . . ." In the eighth round, Orlandi picked himself off the floor three times, in the ninth four times, in the tenth twice. The next time he went down, his seconds carried him out. When the fight was over, Orlandi spent four months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Don Diablo | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

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