Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turning on the fireplug." He indignantly described an undercover effort by Henry Wallace to get him out of the Cabinet. Wrote he of Henry in a 1938 diary entry: "Henry Wallace is a selfish and not too forthright individual who is so consumed with his political ambition that there isn't anything that he won't do to advance himself, even at the cost of injury to someone else...
Actress Cornelia Otis Skinner, on Topic A: "Most women are frustrated in their love lives, so they throw all their energies into women's clubs . . . Let's not kid ourselves, girls. It isn't much fun trying to get along without...
...planet that blew up, and it came from the planet's stony crust but contained traces of the metallic core. A sample was air-expressed at once to the Institute before its radioactivity could diminish much. What it told about its life with the cosmic rays the Institute isn't saying in public...
Miss Hellman's play is the kind a stage cast can really sink its teeth in; and it has been screened with a Broadway kind of incisiveness. It isn't in any pure sense a movie; but under Michael Gordon's direction it is a nearly perfect example of how to film a play. There is hardly a shot which does not set up visual tension against the lashing, steel-spring dialogue; there is not a single performance which is short of adequate; the work of Miss Eldridge, Mr. O'Brien and Betsey Blair...
...poll taken in the college student body. According to the introduction, "Because of its scientific sampling methods and high percentage of returns this poll of Harvard students lays claim to being the most accurate of any political survey conducted in the college this year." However, correct sampling technique isn't the only prerequisite for a good poll. Questions should be objective as possible, and interpretations should not go beyond what can be deduced from the figures. This survey falls down on these counts, and it also seems to fall down on its sampling technique...