Search Details

Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Seven individual poultry dealers in the metropolitan area have explained that white doves are getting harder and harder to find. One merchant, sorely pressed by the two experimenters, admitted that "the white dove market isn't what it used...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Devil Must Wait As Wizards Seek Sacrificial Doves | 12/8/1948 | See Source »

Andre Sigourney will probably will one of these vacancies but Jordan isn't worrying about such matters at this point. He hasn't held final tryouts yet for next Saturday's match at Tech because his men are still not in top physical condition and he isn't sure at what weights some of his top athletes will wrestle...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Wrestlers Shaping Up Under Jordan's Hand | 12/3/1948 | See Source »

...This isn't the sort of stuff that red-blooded Americans ought to do, especially with the world in the awful fix it's in. But it sure is lucky that the younger generation hasn't figured out how to make those atom bombs, considering the way young rowdies are blowing up everything in sight. You bet your sweet life it's lucky...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red-Blooded Dynamite | 11/30/1948 | See Source »

...Task. Last fortnight, in the operating room, Elizabeth was given only local anesthesia; she had to guide Surgeon Penfield's hands by telling him of her sensations. At one point she said: "I feel as though my left hand were moving but it isn't moving." During the eight-hour operation the surgeons took out about two square inches of damaged brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Chance for Elizabeth | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...Chekov's "The Cherry Orchard." Heartbreak House is built in the likeness of a ship and the ship is England, which Shaw saw as headed for the rocks. In "The Cherry Orchard" there is the hope that when the forest is cleared there will be a better world. There isn't this hope in "Heartbreak House." It ends with its people realizing themselves and crying out for annihilation. The meaning of this conclusion is not clear to me but the main points of Shaw's best remarks are directed at the evils of a capitalistic society, and they are clearer...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: The Playgoer | 11/26/1948 | See Source »

Previous | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | Next