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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been discovered that the photograph isn't a picture of Hanover Junction Station, but Burke's Station on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, which was published on page 93 in Roy Meredith's book Mr. Lincoln's Camera Man-Mathew B. Brady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 10, 1952 | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

...kind to the Kukes [short for Kikuyus], what more can they want? They've only been down from the trees for 50 years ..." One helpful farmer lined up his Kukes and told them to speak to me freely. The farmer is a good bwana, they said, but that isn't the point. The land was always ours; now we are hired laborers who can never earn enough to buy a farm. We are caught in a trap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: Panga War | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

...send in flashy backs and big ends, mostly, for the football team. So in the end, we wind up with a better balanced, more solid team. That's the only difference. . . . That's why I don't like those newspapers calling us pro's and them amateurs. . . . It just isn't true...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Maryland's Tatum Hits Ivy For Athletic Scholarships | 11/8/1952 | See Source »

...against those who are or have been trying to destroy the equal rights of human beings. When your organization, however, through attempted censorship, seeks to prevent one from forming his own judgments, don't you think that this may have exactly the opposite effect from that which you intend? Isn't it possible that this will simply increase the already existing prejudice and even make those of us who want to be your friends and supporters resentful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN OPEN LETTER | 11/6/1952 | See Source »

Robert A. Taft isn't running for anything in Ohio this year, but his influence is the key to the state's Senatorial election. Twelve years of frenzied but fruitless support of Taft as its favorite-son candidate for President has made the Senator a martyred hero in the state. Although Ohio's economic and racial complexion would normally veer the state toward liberalism, this Taft fixation has given Ohio's politics a strangely conservative tinge. Senator John Bricher's chances for reelection depend to a great extent on his ability to take advantage of the senior Senator's popularity...

Author: By Milton S. Gwirtzman, | Title: The Campaign | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

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