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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even though Henry Foster and Joe Clark, seeded first and third, respectively, will be out of the lineup because of injuries, the squad isn't very worried about the comparatively weak Williams team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Squash Team Opens Busy Weekend at Williams | 12/16/1949 | See Source »

...Money isn't everything, so we'll overlook her $32 million if you will print a full-length picture of Ana Maria Alvarez Calder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...Tell me what the temperature is right this minute. It's 81, isn't it?" Then he added, with a nod toward his daughter Margaret: "She owes me one dollar if it's 80 or over." The captain flushed, looked as though he wished he were dead, but refused to form an alliance with the President: the temperature was 70.8 degrees. "I'm afraid," said Captain Adell in a barely audible voice, "she doesn't owe you a dollar." the "Winter White House," and as he was driven up Truman Avenue (formerly Division Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The President's Week, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

After the concert last week, William Primrose said: "There isn't anything missing in this concerto. It has everything-excitement, pathos, deep feeling and in places an almost folksong quality." Added Hungarian-born Conductor Dorati, who introduced Bartok's opera Bluebeard's Castle in Dallas last year: "I think of this work as a wonderful and beautiful white diamond. It is just as hard, just as crisp and just as white. I think it is an explanation of the whole man who was Bela Bartok...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dead Man's Diamond | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Since Frankenberg doesn't mean Pleasure Dome to be profound literary criticism, and since it isn't, it can be judged by only one standard: Does it really help the ordinary intelligent reader-the kind who might tackle a Faulkner novel but shies away from an Eliot poem-to understand and enjoy 20th Century poetry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shaky Bridge | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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