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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chapters bore the title: "It's All One World." Then she went after a twelfth-grade text called Applied Economics because it said that the Government had certain obligations "to promote the welfare of all the people." Said one board member: "That's Socialism, isn't it?" Out went the three books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Last Brake? | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

...task of modernizing the antiquated news writing as it flows in "would throw an intolerable burden on copy editors the country over except that there isn't much copy editing going on. The last copy editor is either dead of overwork or in a coma of frustration ... In a survey of editing and story structure in New England papers a few months ago, the most surprising fact to emerge was that there was no editing-or practically none-and that story sequence, no matter how awkward, was accepted without question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Know Thyself | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

Byrd, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said in an interview that if the rate of spending Eisenhower has proposed for the year beginning July 1 isn't lowered "it is probable the budget won't be balanced...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Byrd Warns Unbalanced Budget Means No 1958 Tax Reductions; Japan to Increase China Trade | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

...wickedness offered in the girl's career; you don't use fate except as a rhyme in a song; and above all you aren't gloomy. So all Abbott retains of the original is the elementary boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl structure; and that just isn't enough to drive the musical...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: New Girl in Town | 4/19/1957 | See Source »

...rival isn't round and bouncy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DISCONTENT | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

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