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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME isn't delivered "on the dot" in our mailbox it invariably costs me 15?, because she goes straight to the drug store and buys an extra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 3, 1933 | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

...Isn't it about time that some men stopped classifying us as high-grade morons only interested in the recipes on the woman's page of our local newspapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 3, 1933 | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

...higher tariff on fish (TIME, May I). The President was given an oil painting of the Thebaud which moved him to exclaim: "I think the painting is particularly lovely and I'll hang it in my study in the White House. (Gesturing toward the Thebaud) Isn't she a grand vessel! Look at her lines. Cap'n Pine, you should be proud to own her." But when a few minutes later he was made an honorary member of the Gloucester Master Mariners Association, Master Mariner Roosevelt mused aloud: "I don't think I could take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Down East | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

...whom he discovers in his room after the ship has sailed. The main liabilities of Melody Cruise are the performers technically called "juveniles"-Phil Harris, who sings well but looks like Harry Richman with curvature of the nose, and Helen Mack. There are two pleasing songs,-''He Isn't the Marrying Kind" and "Isn't This a Night for Love"-attractive shipboard interiors, and photographic novelties like a shot of the sky with stars assembling themselves into a bar of music. Comment by Mordaunt Hall, onetime British Army officer who writes astonished cinema reviews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Musicomedies of the Week | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

...Hall a group of pilgrims from northern Italy filed devoutly and stood against the wall. When Pope Pius came in by another door, all knelt. As the Pope stood he spied a kneeling man who towered above the others. He asked the prelate at his side, ''Isn't that Primo Camera?" It was. Said the Pope, who disapproves of prizefighting. "It seems God could not enrich him physically more abundantly." When he raised his arm to bless the group, he gestured specially at Italy's heavyweight champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 24, 1933 | 4/24/1933 | See Source »

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