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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...during the one-minute period devoted to extemporaneous speech that he displays an extraordinary lack of ability, generally stammering and stuttering through such entirely confused phrases as "Memorial Hall tower is 14 feet square; and if it isn't fourteen feet square, it ought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phonograph Records of Freshmen Voice Tests Show Oddities and Sense of Humor of Yardlings | 12/5/1936 | See Source »

...idea that a Boston audience, or for that matter any audience, sits on its hands, is pure bunk. Once the people pay the price of admission, you've won them over. . . That's reasonable, isn't it? They paid to have a laugh, now all you have to do is give them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cantor Entertains Business School As He Plugs For Radio As Life Career | 12/2/1936 | See Source »

Here at Wadham, where the industrial revolution has as yet not been felt, students do the more manly thing and come over the wall through barbed wire. It isn't unusual to meet a proctor waiting for you on the other side but, as one young Englishman put it, that's the surprise element which though hard on the pocketbook adds much to the sport of the feat...

Author: By Christopher Janus, | Title: The Oxford Letter | 12/2/1936 | See Source »

...train, air-cooled V everything. Show me something better "up North!" You wouldn't call Dallas, New Orleans, Natchez and Shreveport "backwoods," would you? Perhaps the inspiration comes from your idea of the country we traverse. If it does, then you're wrong again. The Mississippi Valley isn't "backwoods." Neither is the famous, fertile Red River Valley. Neither is the rich, agricultural section of North Texas. (I'm attaching a map showing this country. You oughta read up about us. You'd get a different picture.) Something else. Take a peek at the bond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 30, 1936 | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...isn't much fun to watch the Duncans and Miss Coca trying to bring this vehicle up to scratch. Don't bother about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/27/1936 | See Source »

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