Word: isn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...isn't it a shame that they can't let me shuffle along in my own way for a few years more. As you know, from the standpoint of the church in convicting me for heresy they are sending me to Hell...
...Nanny isn't certain...
...There is a small body of men," he continued, "who call themselves Fundamentalists. They believe that isn't man's business to find the truth, but God's to reveal it. This God has done in the Bible, and nothing that isn't in there, is true...
...influence of the primary school teacher upon the character of the boy is not so great as he may think; that every boy has his own father as his model of masculine virtue. Mr. Wells has considered that, but he gets no comfort from the thought. The father isn't a fit model. He too is a victim of the system, says Mr. Wells...
...Bluebeards, poisoned toadstools ,and incendiary spinsters together with more important social and political items. Then a flurry of circumstances had caused him to cease buying newspapers; he had found he got on comfortably without them and his answer to his own question was implied: Not a particle of difference. "Isn't it possible that most of us overdo the newspaper habit?" And Agent Barton adduced the example of President Roosevelt, who freed his mind of "all the pull and tug of the nonessential" by having his secretaries clip and paste up the essence of each day's news...