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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week the Bungles stopped dead, in the middle of a quarrel (see cut). Cartoonist Tuthill, 59, may start a new strip. But no more Bungles: "George Bungle is old-fashioned in the same way a lady's hat gets oldfashioned. It is of good quality but the style isn't there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bungles Bopped | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

Wrinkling his emotional nose, Columnist Samuel Grafton wrote: "There isn't any meat; that's war. There isn't any curfew; that's peace. The price of steel scrap is going down; that's peace. Try and get sugar; that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Half War, Half Peace | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

Jeffers wired back: "Strange world, isn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fun Plus Hugs | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

...warm approval - as a temperance lecturer at Chautauquas. The picture shows an uncommonly dogged desire to be honest about its hero's sorriest phase; it stages some very energetic socking matches; it ripples, like wheat under a wind machine, with brogue and assorted Irish sentiments; and it isn't a very good show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 28, 1945 | 5/28/1945 | See Source »

...long time though, the men continue to look and feel like duds. At a tea given by an R.A.F. pilot's mother-in-law, they crab interminably about their rotten treatment; and the gently experienced old lady replies, "O dear, it's a shame, isn't it? Who'll have another chocolate biscuit?" But it is in their worst failure that the men learn their best lesson. Deliberately "getting killed'' in order to loaf through a sham-battle, they already are soldiers enough to be ashamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 28, 1945 | 5/28/1945 | See Source »

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