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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...juggling his infield to find the best combination, but chose Adzigian at third, Woodruff at short, Fitzpatrick at second, and Nevin at first base as his Number One outfit yesterday. The second infield had Higgins at third, Hovenanian at short, Hayes at second, and Franny Gleason at first. It isn't at all certain that either one of these combinations will remain intact for the first game. The likeliest choice seems to be Adzigian, Woodruff, Hayes, and Gleason, judging by the way they worked yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASEBALL NINE HOLDS THIRD OUTDOOR DRILL | 4/10/1934 | See Source »

...just a dainty bird, my fans are my wings, and the spotlight is the moon," declared Sally Rand as she discussed her famed dance with a CRIMSON reporter in the dressing room of a Cleveland theatre last week. "My dance isn't immoral, it requires art like any other dance and if you don't believe it, you might try it some time." The reporter declined Miss Rand's kind invitation and decided to take her word for it, as he watched her twirl a large white fan over her head with graceful movements...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Demand Sally Rand Wear Panties While Harvard Man Sees Advantage in Smaller Fans | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

...board to which criminal questions can be taken. The simplest way to deal with the problem is to create a national board of review to which doubtful income taxes can be taken. Such a board of eminent jurists could decide whether an indictment should be sought. But if publicity isn't given then, how will the public be appeased...

Author: By David Lawrence, | Title: Today in Washington | 3/17/1934 | See Source »

...increasing. Passenger lines needed the revenges from air mail to help them make ends meet and earn a return on capital invested. New passenger lines would hardly be set up to compete with existing lines even if mail subsides were granted. For the history of aviation shows that there isn't enough volume of business on the main routes to justify new lines any more than there would be for the building of any more railroads between New York and Washington...

Author: By David Lawrence, | Title: Today in Washington | 3/13/1934 | See Source »

...people in the nation control 85% of the wealth and I suspect that if they could sell air they would get a corner on it and let the rest of us suffocate."* Among his list of a dozen "axioms" were: 1) Life is worth living. If it isn't we ought to stand the unemployed up and shoot them or let them starve as our financial interests now blandly permit. 2) Most people don't know yet there are enough goods for them to live in comfort. The schools never gave us any notion that with proper organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Columbians to Cleveland | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

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