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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Win-the-War, to take care of this fellow who had been in this bad accident. And the result is that the patient is back on his feet. He has given up his crutches. He has begun to strike back-on the offensive. He isn't wholly well yet, and he won't be until he wins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: PLATFORM FOR 1944 | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

They simply have to find out what happened to One Man's Family. At ten o'clock, they look at the clock and go right on where they left off. Finally they go. You are tired. Your spouse isn't. She feels like talking ... about that new fur coat she needs, most likely. You listen, as usual. At last you are in bed, covers up around your neck, and you are dozing off into a much needed sleep ... The baby cries...

Author: By Yeoman RICHARD Brill, | Title: NAVAL TRAINING SCHOOL | 1/7/1944 | See Source »

...maxim is "When a plane stops flying, it falls"; and though his approach to the air is cucumber-calm, he also says: "Heaven help us if the human race ever gets to where it isn't afraid of flying." But about the only time he visibly showed any excitement was in 1941, when his son Robert E. Lee (the General was a distant ancestor) became co-pilot on Ham's regular Los Angeles-San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Ham & Dutch | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

...also perpetrators of The Early Morning Frolic (Mutual's Detroit-Windsor Station CKLW), one of the most impudent shows on the U.S. air. They were only trying to be funny, but some 100 listeners were in no mood for joking. They wrote in asking for the remedy. There isn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Dr. Quack | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

Naval Lieut. (j.g.) Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt is going to marry her, said Hollywood's contour de force K. T. Stevens. The millionaire peacetime sportsman, divorced last year by Manuela Hudson, is now PT Boating in the South Pacific.* "It isn't official, exactly," said K.T., "but we're mutually agreed. . .. We hope-I mean, I hope-we can be married when he gets his next leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Shapes | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

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