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Word: tis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before speaking, Dr. Sitwell fumbled about in her purse for a moment, and then said, "Oh dear, I seem to have lost my watch!" Her audience reacted warmly to this; the lady next to me saying, with a fond chuckle, "Isn't that just like a poet!" "Oh, here tis," said Dr. Sitwell, and we were...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: An Evening With the Sitwells | 3/5/1949 | See Source »

...cheeked and dark-haired. But when 28-year-old Guido Cantelli stepped to the podium and rapped his baton, the jokes stopped. By the time Guido had driven them through bar-by-bar rehearsals of Hindemith and Haydn without looking at a score-gesturing and singing fa-sol-la-tis to make up for his lack of English-musicians were murmuring about "terrific talent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Like I Do | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

...Nathan Hirschberg, a Manhattan attorney, testified in his wife's suit for separation that he used to leave tender notes on her pillow before leaving for work. Sample: "Cherub: Rise and shine. 'Tis a lovely day for a lovely cherub." If he failed to leave a note, said Hirschberg, his wife would cut loose later with "swear words and oaths that would make a seasoned muleskinner envious." Said Cherub: "I remember calling him, nothing worse than a penny-pinching jerk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

Doctors have long believed that the polio virus creeps along the nerves, on its way to destroying the nerve cells. Last week, for the first time, the virus was caught in the act. Drs. Eduard De Rober-tis and Francis Otto Schmidt of M.I.T. showed a Toronto convention of the Electron Microscope Society of America some remarkable pictures of the polio virus marching in orderly files along a nerve fiber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polio at Work | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...know deep inside tis it's an awful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Death & the Captain | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

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