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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extra hour of imbibition which greeted customers of local bars Halloween night probably won't be allowed again until New Years Eve. The Liquor Commission extended the midnight deadline to 10 a.m. to give Halloween celebrators a little longer for merrymaking, but it isn't likely that similar changes will be made for the Princeton weekend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drinkers' Bonus | 11/2/1949 | See Source »

...Isn't It Nice? When she finds it necessary, Queen Mary can speak her mind. Once she was opening a training center for girl domestics. Up-to-date kitchens gleamed with all the latest appliances. The anxious ladies in charge cocked their ears for the queen's words of approval. "It's too hot in here for those girls," said Queen Mary. "I'll send round an electric fan tomorrow." Next day the fan arrived. In an age marked by universal uncertainty on moral questions, Britain's elder Queen is plagued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Her Majesty | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...know all that," the country-mouse wiggled his whiskers impatiently, "but what are they doing here? Isn't it enough they've thrown you out of house and home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Gnawing Issue | 10/27/1949 | See Source »

...Blockhouse, but official practice won't start in earnest until after the Yale game, when Coach Butch Jordan is freed of his football duties. Also, 25 fencers are working out. Official practice here doesn't start until the end of November, for the first match isn't until February...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Out-of-Season Label Fails to Halt Winter, Spring Teams | 10/27/1949 | See Source »

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayor shot its first Harvard scenes for "Mystery Street" yesterday, but the process clogged up the Yard for over four hours and still isn't complete...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MGM Starts Shooting Crime Movie | 10/26/1949 | See Source »

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