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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington Post and Evening Star and the New York Times. "We know that the people of the 48 states do not know what the people of Hawaii are up against," said the ads. "And we can't seem to find anyone in America that gives a damn. Isn't there someone in the Congress of the United States or in high official position who will help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Who Gives A Damn? | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...Isn't it true," complained Writer-Director Joseph (A Letter to Three Wives) Mankiewicz, "that a real-estate operator whose chief concern should be taking gum off carpets and checking adolescent love-making in the balcony-isn't it true that this man is in control [of] ... the motion-picture industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Supply & Demand | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...Good (College) Life isn't the only thing that's over. The world, as most of today's seniors know, is full of people who have agreed on orthodox ways of living and thinking, and who make it their chief concern to see that everyone follows them without a quibble. They stand ready to punish the unorthodox with varying degrees of severity, and continually join battle with any cases of non-conformity which protect and nourish the rebels. The most important sanctuaries for unorthodoxy are the colleges and universities, and in the past few years, many of them have been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Commencement, 1949 | 6/23/1949 | See Source »

...drawing of one of his scantily clad lovelies for a good luck token. He informed Morgan that this year's drawing was in the works. But it hasn't arrived at Red Top yet and Morgan is looking for it in each mail. Superstitution or not, this Harvard outfit isn't overlooking a bet for Friday. After all, this one is against Yale...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, | Title: Crew Prepares for Yale at Red Top | 6/21/1949 | See Source »

...source materials. His thick-painted water colors ("I mix my paints with spit, mostly") represent public places from Mexico City and Harlem to Limerick and Toulon, all swarming with grinning monsters from every age. Peering happily at one representative specimen, the pale little painter with the pointed nose giggled: "Isn't that horrible? It gives me a turn. I thoroughly like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Spit & Polish | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

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