Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Once you get outside the center of the city, it looks like the biggest village in the world. . . . The truth is, the town is a little big for its britches. When the Bolsheviks made it the nation's capital, the population jumped by hundreds of thousands. . . . There just isn't any place to put most of them without doubling up, so the family that has a room of its own is well...
Today Kantor is one of the most popular teachers at Manhattan's Cooper Union and also the Art Students League. What baffles his students is that, unlike their own, Kantor's perennial experiments are usually successful. "It isn't easy, you know," explains Artist Kantor shyly. "Painting is rather like having a love affair...
...wife says I'm a fool-and she may be right. She often is. I don't even know what is wrong myself, only that something keeps gnawing away inside me, and life isn't as good as it looks. . . . My job at the factory is going nicely. We've got a nice little house and the kids are doing well. My wife is the best friend a man ever had. But all the time I've got the feeling that there is something missing. Like meat without salt. . . . Books don't seem...
...might say, 'Try religion.' Why should I? I don't feel a sinner, and, anyway, you haven't seen our parson. He isn't even a man. So far as I can see, the churches seem to have plenty of troubles of their own without bothering them with mine. Squabbling and preaching are all they're good for, and I can get along without either, thank...
...Chicago a confused grocer listened to price complaints, blurted: "For goodness sakes, ladies, I agree with you. Why don't you stop buying the stuff? It isn't worth it." In three weeks the Government's index of wholesale food prices jumped 29.1 points...