Search Details

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


Usage:

...still uncertain, as that department is pretty lean after the injuries sustained last week. Starter Bob Barton is definitely out with a couple of cracked ribs, and Tom Kelleher, promising Sophomore end from Philadelphia, has been on the shelf with two gimpy knees and a heavy cold. If Kelleher isn't ready, Winthrop Whip Ralliday will start at the right flank and Tom Costello will take over Barton's left end slot...

Author: By Holy CROSS Tomahawk, | Title: Purple Battles to Wipe Out Memory of 1946 Trimming | 10/18/1947 | See Source »

This will entail securing pencils and all the everyday paraphernalia which somehow isn't known today overseas. Like Salzburg, such a capsule-scale project serves as "an example, to show what is possible, so that other can follow up in helping to get European education back on its feet again...

Author: By Sellg S. Harrison, | Title: Councils 'New Look' stirs Action on College Problems | 10/15/1947 | See Source »

...isn't that the Elis showed Baker Field anything anyone didn't know they had, but rather that they did all they were touted for so well. Playing against a strong and favored Columbia eleven, the Blues were like in an old hand in the saddle--always unruffled, smooth, in control, and ready to apply the pressure when needed...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lewis, | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/15/1947 | See Source »

Down without Effort. Once you're out, Baldwin says, there isn't enough air to breathe. A special bottle of oxygen may fix that. But the "opening shock" at high altitudes is too great to risk. It is better to fall into denser air before using the parachute. Wright Field has developed a gadget that opens the chute at the proper altitude, whether the pilot is conscious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: High Jump | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

...come back and try to save what is left of their worldly goods and of their lives. He is just getting around to the latter project, with his first cooperation from her, when, after two long hours, the picture ends. The moral appears to be that money isn't everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 13, 1947 | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

Previous | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | Next