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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early member of the American Legion, which had, he thought, disenfranchised a Harvard post for attacking a bonus bill after the first war, Elliott challenged any organization now "to say that the job isn't done this time," and to send someone over there to finish "army of occupation commitments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELLIOTT WARNS OF PITFALLS IN ORGANIZATION FOR VETERANS | 3/8/1946 | See Source »

...reader that there is only one certain class of men in the Navy who disapprove of the new-type Navy uniform suggested, and these are the "sour old regulars." Gentlemen, we believe that well over 70% of the reserves agree with us when we say that there isn't a sharper looking uniform in the service for enlisted men than that which the Navy has today. ... So don't hurry to throw that old sea bag to the deep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 4, 1946 | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

Concluded Capp: "I learned that there isn't a helluva lot anyone else can do that you and I can't do, and there isn't anything in life anyone else can have, we can't have. Wait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Yokum v. Hokum | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

...grim doctrinaire ranks [are] marching toward a future in which all thoughts will be the same. . . . Is the comrade in the second squad thinking a little thought of his own, all by himself? Let him beware. Let him remember Browder. If he isn't careful his name, too, will become a hissing and a mocking-there will be a sin called Smithism or Jonesism will damn him forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Careful, Mr. Smith! | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

...from waywardness and to caring for unwed mothers, had contracted for a benefit performance of a current Broadway hit. No one had read the script, none knew that the play dealt lightheartedly with adultery. The play: "O Mistress Mine (Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne). Said a Youth Consultant: "The story isn't exactly what we might have chosen, but it's so beautifully done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: End & Means | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

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