Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...population of Spain. When Santayana replied 19 million, the old man said thoughtfully, "I must tell them at the office that they don't sell enough oil in Spain." When Strong bought a cord of wood, Rockefeller studied it in the basement, and said, "Charles . . . that isn't a cord of wood. When I was a young fellow I used to cut a cord of wood and I know what it looks like...
...said he was frightened of dogs, I said: 'You're quite right. They often bite people.' To the woman who said she was frightened of wasps, I said: 'Who isn't? They sting people...
...little on the gay side." To rehearse the sisters he had to modify the hardy rehearsal technique he had developed during 40 years with boys' choirs (stretching the singers out on table and piano tops for breathing exercises): "Of course, in the case of the sisters that just isn't done. . . . [They] are dedicated to an unworldly life. No Delilah business, you know...
...Detroit's Tigers, still cocky because of their potent pitching pair-Dizzy Trout and Hal Newhouser, who racked up a record of 56 wins last year-still cannot pretend it isn't painful to have lost Slugger Dick Wakefield (.355) and Pink) Higgins...
...cold wind blew from the Danube, and-one by one the tables in the beer garden emptied." But soon the massive Bishop of Regensburg entered, his tiny dog jumping up & down beside him "as if ... suspended from a rubber band." "Where's old Anton?" asked the bishop. "He isn't here any more," murmured the waitress. ("It was a phrase that everyone in Regensburg understood.") "Oh," said the bishop...