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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course, quite possible that this is a coincidence, but if it isn't, and if your writers did use our book, I am rather surprised that no mention was made of the fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 17, 1950 | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

...argue forever as to the merits of this new [Communist] economic system, but you cannot argue away the fact that ... 170 million people are . . living, working, producing their daily bread, marrying, bearing children . without the 'help' of any capitalists, landlords or employers . . . But, somebody may say, isn't Russia a pretty tough sort of place? What about the purges and the shootings and the lack of civil liberties . .? Yes, Russia is pretty tough Things have happened there which I,'for one, most passionately hope may never happen in Britain. But let us never forget this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDEOLOGIES: Ideas Can Be Dangerous | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

...last night denied a University assertion that he knew that the Western Avenue property upon which his golf range is located has been for sale for number of years. In replying to a statement made by Henry H. Cutler, University representative in the dispossession proceedings, Madden said "it simply isn't true...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Madden Rejects Assertion Golf Range Was For Sale | 4/15/1950 | See Source »

...This isn't so remarkable when one considers that last year 'Cliffe-dwellers polished off five tons of roast lamb, four tons of roast beef, three tons of ham, and almost two tons of butter. As if this weren'nt cough, they topped it off with 12,300 eggs and close to 300 gallons of ice cream...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 12,300 Eggs, 3 Tons Ham Kept 'Cliffe Salted in '46 | 4/12/1950 | See Source »

...this, somehow, let him down in the end. His friends, follow caustists and colleagues, have hastened to surmise that he decide to end it all because he saw no hope for the things he believed in. Isn't it just as plausible that, possibly his basic intelligence finally triumphed, he saw he was wrong, but the weakness that led him into all this mess robbed him of guts enough to admit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cunningham's Story on Matthiessen Attacked; Terms of Will Announced | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

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