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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present a difficult and controversial subject . . . with a sort of Olympian understanding and detachment, and perhaps a sublime tolerance . . . But . . . isn't there a misprint under the picture [by Artzybasheff] ? Shouldn't it be "We Are Getting to the Bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 15, 1948 | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

Coach Barclay, who has had his Varsity athletes in uniform since October 18, isn't quite so optimistic, but appears satisfied with the team's progress. "We're not trying to develop as fast as we did last year," he revealed yesterday, "but for this stage of the season, we're coming along pretty well...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/10/1948 | See Source »

...doesn't make his shifts from mood to mood easy enough to follow. And he doesn't quite manage to get across just what was wrong with the party, or with the girl, or with the girl's friends. He writes will enough in places so that there isn't any reason to suppose that he couldn't write equally well all through if he had an objective critical editor to work with...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Signature | 11/10/1948 | See Source »

Through Tin Pan Alley (which isn't an alley but a scattered industry), the good news spread. Publishers who had been hoarding their best tunes for months, trying to keep them out of the "corn belt" (i.e., giving them to harmonica outfits to record), were riffling through their desk drawers. Bandleaders were set for hurried rehearsals; Crosby, Como and Sinatra weren't straying too far from their telephones. Last week, after ten months, it looked as if the record ban was about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pass That Peace Pipe | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

Greyhound buses leave Boston for New York every hour on the hour, but getting from New York to Princeton isn't so easy. The best bus schedules are: 1) Leave Boston at 1 p.m. today, arrive New York 9:35 p.m., and arrive Princeton 12:55 p.m. 2) Leave Boston at 9:00 p.m., arrive New York 5 a.m., and arrive Princeton 7:51 a.m.; 3) Leave Boston at midnight, arrive New York 6:55 a.m., and arrive Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How to Find Princeton, N. J. In Only Five Simple Lessons | 11/5/1948 | See Source »

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