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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Loves of Carmen. It isn't art and it isn't Bizet, but it is Rita Hayworth in Technicolor (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Sep. 27, 1948 | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...workers' productivity was one-third higher than that of his New England crews. One reason was that Southern plants could be run on three shifts; most New Englanders refused to work night shifts. "When you can't work your plant three shifts a day," said Little, "it isn't worth modernizing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Sentence? | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

There is nothing in this show that cannot be found in most tough-mug movies-and nothing that isn't passably entertaining, watched through half-closed eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 27, 1948 | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

When it comes to the line, the situation is a little more cloudy. By juggling around his returning lettermen, Little has managed to piece together one pretty good forward wall, but reserve strength seems lacking here. This isn't the line that held its opponents scoreless for 15 consecutive quarters last year, but it is a good...

Author: By Sedgwick W. Green, | Title: Lou Little Weeps, But Lions Will Still Field a Strong Team Oct. 2 | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...doing the same thing, and he had what I thought was an excellent reason for paying late, but all the secretary said was "I'm sorry, but it's by vote of the Corporation." She said it very politely, about seventeen times. Now after all, madam, the Corporation isn't God. It's a business. And most businesses grant that you aren't necessarily delinquent if you pay your bill late, so they make their penal codes flexible. Oh, can we not look to our own Corporation for equal generosity...

Author: By Joel Raphaelzon, | Title: Off The Cuff | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

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