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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Artist Bishop freely admits her subject-matter is limited. "I try to limit content, to limit everything," she explains, "in order to get down to something in my work. You know, I'm glad this isn't one of the great periods of art. I could never paint a great subject, and the fun about painting today is that we don't have to. We can paint the little things, things that perhaps no one noticed before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: They Drink & Fly Away | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...right, folks," said Mr. Summers. "Let's finish quickly." By now Tessie Hutchinson was in the middle of a cleared space; she held her hands out desperately, but the villagers moved in. Old Man Warner kept saying, "Come on, come on, everyone." Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, "It isn't fair," but soon the crowd was upon her. A stone hit her on the head. Other stones came hurtling through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Come On, Everyone | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...this isn't a serious complaint, because the music is only part of the atmosphere at the Pops, even when it's as good as it was Monday night. Though the program said that some apparently non-Harvard group called "Firnabank" was "among those present," you wouldn't have noticed, for a remarkably large number of people knew the words to "Fair Harvard," and everyone seemed to cheer when "Wintergreen" appeared as an encore...

Author: By Herbert P. Gleason, | Title: The Music Box | 5/18/1949 | See Source »

...first. He is firmly convinced that any gag sounds better leaving his own mouth, and, argues his faithful flock, all jokes are public property any how. An understanding friend explains: "The guy just can't help imitating something that has entertained . . . His heart is in his work. He isn't happy unless he's entertaining people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Child Wonder | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...with soul so dead that he won't admit Graduation is worth the time and that the money can be managed somehow. It's simply that plans have to be made reasonably far in advance, and scores of seniors don't face the Graduation issue until too late. It isn't too late yet--the Class of 1949, and all others who will receive degrees in June, can still get the pesky details out of the way and appear in staggering numbers five weeks or so from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stick Around | 5/10/1949 | See Source »

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