Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Isn't it nice!" someone once said of the Psychological Clinic, "Wisteria outside, hysteria inside." For the clinic on Plympton Street hides its work in a rambling vine-draped building which could easily be mistaken for a farmhouse. The interior is equally folksy: it feels more like the home of a large (and rather eccentric) family than the combined research center, clinic, and classroom building which...
...said the voice. Well, you had better report it. It isn't on the records...
...thump of shells echoed sporadically in the cool room. "Curious how easily one gets used to this," Mrs. Hawkings said. "Just yesterday when we'd heard no explosions for half an hour I remarked to Billy, 'Isn't it quiet...
Citation v. Coaltown. Only last month Jimmy Jones said that "Citation could roll up Coaltown into a little ball and throw him away." Ben isn't that sure, or he makes believe he isn't. "Horses change," he hedges. "Coaltown is ten-times better than he was last year...
...that isn't all. At present, if the student manages to pry his bluebook from a Department, he finds only his grade on the cover and a lot of cryptic figures in the margins. Unless he can persuade the instructor to go over the examination with him, he still has no way of knowing what was good and what was poor in his paper. Part of self-education is to profit by one's own mistakes. Seniors in particular, preparing for General Examinations, can benefit enormously by reviewing old bluebooks. In other words, the same technique used by conscientious section...