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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four 1,500-watt lights have been placed on poles around the ice. That isn't all that's necessary, however. What seems to be traditional New England weather has converted the Soldiers Field rink into a swimming pool. As a result the pipes have been turned off for the duration of the Indian summer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Hockey League Will Play in Evening | 11/25/1953 | See Source »

...sale of liquor to Indians be lifted is in error. Synod did not make this recommendation. Rather, in the interest of civil rights, Synod voted to request Governor Howard Pyle to put the matter and final decision in the hands of Indian tribal councils ... It isn't that Presbyterians are in favor of liquor. The point is that they are against discrimination, and they feel that white man's laws banning the sale of liquor to Indians were discriminatory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 23, 1953 | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

...have been-but let the Cadillac owners and swank restaurants have them. Your reporter might be surprised to see the towns and stores that don't carry as good a quality as the "good," but at a "good" price ; and much of that hamburger and lower-priced meat isn't from the 14? steer, either; it comes from that 6? and 8? cow that we have been selling . . As for your solution of "... a wider attempt to breed better-grade cattle with less waste . . ." one would assume that we are still marketing the scrubbiest of the old Longhorns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 23, 1953 | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

Allen, 31, believes that most televiewers watch shows only for the satisfaction of saying, "God, isn't that awful!" With this in mind, his aim is to "try not to bother people." He says: "It's more important to be liked or not to be hated than it is to be laughed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: No Laughter, Please | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

...Maybe it isn't Christian, but it's a church-member attitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Joe the Baptist | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

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