Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maxwell's Demon could explain the peculiar antics of the coal and grant that hot coals flying about the room might ignite the window shades and the books in the bookcase ["Witchery in North Dakota," TIME, April 24], but really, isn't it a bit preposterous to assume that the dictionary's molecules would coincidentally happen to go in the same di rection at the same time? Has Dr. Gamow figured the odds on such a double accident...
Question: Isn't the Red Army dangerously close to our frontiers...
...nice fantasy idea, handled with a nice sense for prankish complications, A Highland Fling just isn't written with enough gusto or grace. Its romantic moods never quite blend Scotland with fairyland; the thistle is there, but not the thistledown. And its fun is too often tame and even cute - a sort of A. A. Milne version of Tam O'Shanter...
...Francis Hackett, Walter Lippmann, Herbert Croly, Felix Frankfurter-who flocked around him: "What is it? Tell me, I'll take the opposite side." "These young men," he complained, "are so damned solemn." He was painted by Artist Charles Hopkinson in the full glory of his judicial robes. "That isn't me," said Holmes, "but it's a damn good thing for people to think it is." When Justice McReynolds snapped a question at a green young lawyer, Holmes woke with a start, barked: "I wouldn't answer that question if I were you," fell back into...
...Said Mr. Lewis philosophically: "Money isn't everything. We've got money enough now to get anything we neEd, but we can't get any good corn meal...