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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...says the Ivy League isn...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Gridders, Tigers Aim to Air it Out | 10/24/1987 | See Source »

...returning forward Derek Mills sat out the first three games with a knee injury and still isn't 100 percent...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Tape and Ice | 10/23/1987 | See Source »

...rhetorical questions should be quickly responded to before the speaker has time to continue. For instance, if the teacher says '...one must wonder just what is the nature of art and its relationship to life?...' You must quickly jump to action with some obvious truism such as, 'Well, isn't art, in a way, an imitation of life? I mean in a sense isn't it true that in a symbolic sense we can see ourselves in art? You can continue in this vain until someone threatens...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Full of It | 10/22/1987 | See Source »

...father tells these people he isn't a bank. My reactions are about the same--except that I also wonder how a man of the cloth could be so hard of heart...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Begging the Question | 10/20/1987 | See Source »

...Morris Albert's Feelings isn't really Morris Albert's Feelings at all. No, the treacly pop song that sold more than a million records in 1975 is really a rewrite of Pour Toi, a hitherto obscure French cafe tune composed nearly 20 years earlier by one Louis Gaste. That, at least, is what a nonmusical federal-court jury in Manhattan decided last July, awarding Gaste a settlement of at least half a million dollars. Gaste pronounced himself vindicated. Albert's feelings were unknown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Has Somebody Stolen Their Song? | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

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