Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President concluded: "I believe that hard work is not only a very, very fine thing for most humans but keeps them healthy. But there's also things happen to the human body, that after all maybe a man isn't described fully as healthy, and then there's another calculation to make . . . My mind at this moment is not fixed. If it were, I would say so right here this second. But my mind is not fixed to such and such an extent that it can't be changed...
...spring of 1949, a group of businessmen, publishers, labor and community leaders, with little more in common than a deep concern over the plight of U.S. public education, issued a simple statement that was both obvious and all too true. "There isn't much of a problem," said the group, "concerning what must be done to improve the schools. The problem is to get people to do it." Last week, as the National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools prepared to dissolve itself, it could justly claim that never before had so many Americans been so eager...
...Lorgneur the result was a slight wrinkling of the surface in the upper righthand sky. But Watteau had good reason for haste. Suffering from tuberculosis, he was always in failing health. Once, asked about the future, he replied: "Isn't the hospital the last resort? There, no one is refused admission." Instead it was in a country house outside Paris, where he hoped the fresh air would cure him, that Watteau died...
Other quiz-show producers have decided that money isn't everything, and are putting their chips down on funnymen whose questions to contestants are incidental to their jokes. Groucho Marx has a commanding lead in this division. His closest rivals are the venerable What's My Line?, I've Got a Secret (offering three comics: Garry Moore, Bill Cullen, Henry Morgan), and Two for the Money, which depends on the synthetic Hoosierisms of Herb Shriner...
...Weiland has bet any money on the game, he isn't telling. He did say, however, that the rousing win over Providence has done a good deal to bolster team confidence. The Crimson has lost one of its last 21 Ivy League games. "Brown is our biggest threat," Weiland observed...