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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other political system show the results we have attained since 1776? It isn't the result of our geographical location. Other parts of the world can reproduce our climate and have vast potential resources. It isn't the stock we came from. So it must be the way we go about it. So why accept "Two Worlds" and allow a totalitarian form of government to exist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 9, 1946 | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

...removed in the summer of 1945, an Allied Commission reported that the painting was in good condition. Says associate director of the Worcester (Mass.) Museum Perry Cott (who, as a member of the commission, ordered the sandbags removed): "The Last Supper may be getting worse and it surely isn't getting any better. It is a miracle that it was saved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: War Casualty | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

...Bolles is worrying about anything these days, it isn't about filling his Varsity boat when the time comes for the crew to move out on the Charles next spring. For, to be short, he has a whole batful of good material, and his problems consist mostly in finding the right man for the right slot before the first race...

Author: By R. SCOT Leavitt, | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

...prize porker. They felt certain that the man who made Terry and the Pirates, the best drawn U.S. comic strip, could do it again. Last week Caniff finally told them a little about his new comic (to start Jan. 13): it would be called Steve Canyon and "it isn't a kid's strip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Not for Kids | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

...when a TIME correspondent asked a Warsaw hairdresser last week for her opinion of Trygve Lie, she merely asked: "What is that?" London's man-in-the-street (and many an intellectual) has never heard of Lie. In Paris, an unusually well-informed headwaiter exclaimed: "Ah out, isn't he that Swede who presides over U.N., makes $20,000 a year and pays no income tax? Quel veinard (what a lucky guy), I'd like to be tax-exempt myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Immigrant to What? | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

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