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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...something for France."* Said she: "The French are the bravest people I have ever seen, the most gallant. ... I owe so much of my artistic life to them." When Miss Moore was asked if she were a good driver, her husband, Spanish Cinemactor Valentin Perera, interrupted: "No, she isn't. I am not going to ride in her ambulance. I will have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 18, 1939 | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

Back to his guns went the General to reply: "Bless your heart, Dorothy, my stuff isn't nearly as biased and inflammatory as yours. . . . Ever since Miss Thompson was rudely treated in Germany she . .. has been a breast-beating Boadicea urging us to flaming action. She sometimes seems to think that the issues of war are her and Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Passion v. Reason | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...lowest in Europe, is nine per 100,000 compared with 13 in Britain, 29 in Germany. As last week wore on, as the nerves of the rest of the world unraveled like rope-ends, only one complaint was to be heard in Poland: What are they waiting for? Isn't it clear that compromise is out of the question? Why do they not begin? Soon enough of the questions were answered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: National Glue | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...Britain isn't ready" they declare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bellwhangers | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...isn't necessary to go to the Greeks for a word for Mr. McWhiney. I can think of several juicy English ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 28, 1939 | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

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