Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Pratt Segmiller isn't running a filling station in Marysvale (pop. 600), Utah, he hunts rocks. One day, while prospecting around the sage and cedar-covered mountains northeast of Marysvale, he found some strange yellow-colored rocks strewn over a surface of about 60 acres. Segmiller thought they might be valuable, so he staked a claim and called the Vanadium Corp. of America. When it inspected the claim; it got pretty excited and leased the land from Segmiller. The yellow rocks were autunite, a uranium-bearing ore, and the strike looked like the most promising yet made...
Jerry Nason, Boston Globe: "Yale has won three football games this season. This leads to the suspicion that the place is lousy with athletic scholarships. Since Harvard isn't lousy (no comma here, please) with athletic scholarships, my vote is the Eli by the margin of one scholarship...
Room permission at Yale isn't much unlike room permission at Harvard. In fact Yale's closing hours for the Crimson--Eli weekend will run a close parallel to what they would have been if the game were in Cambridge...
...result, Banks argued, the movies generally are not offering the little woman "the type of emotional experience she wants, and anybody who thinks the menfolk in the family are going to the theater if she's opposed to the idea just isn't being realistic...
...publishers call The Eye of God (the name of the local mountain) a novel. It isn't. Anecdotes don't make a novel any more than edelweiss make an alp; but when Bemelmans does the picking, they make a bright nosegay...