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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...relay isn't what's wrong, although that's what the figures seem to say," remarked Gordon. Just where the tragic flaw fell thrice, however, he refused to state, considering such information of tactical importance. Other channels, nevertheless, report of a very weak breast-stroking staff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skaters Open Campaign as Underdogs to B. U.; Mermen Picked as Heavy Favorites Over M. I. T. | 12/18/1946 | See Source »

Last fortnight the Wisconsin Banking Commission forbade the state's savings banks and trust companies to buy World Bank securities. Said Commission Chairman James B. Mulva: the guarantee of a foreign government "isn't worth a hoot in hell." (Actually the U.S. would be doing much of the guaranteeing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Gene Meyer Steps Down | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

...mass production budgeteer, Mrs, Stapleton custom-builds her accounts from the family's individual needs and interests. Over 12 years of experience and 35,000 budgets have convinced her that it isn't the amount of money that counts most for happiness, but the way it is used...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Budgeting Tackiest Cement of Marriage, Says Stapleton | 12/11/1946 | See Source »

...British broadcasting isn't in it with you Americans. Here you've made a great study of radio. In England it's very amateur. Our apparatus, compared to yours, is quaint, and we have almost no good producers or writers. There are all sorts of reasons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: British Bouquet | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

...very likely to drop you. And by the time you get back everyone has forgotten you. And, of course, there's no money in it. It's just a way to keep your name before the public so you can make money on other engagements. . . . "That isn't to say that everything is bad about British broadcasting. We do give a good bit more attention to the cultural side. ... There is a whole wavelength, called the Third Program, for just that sort of thing (TIME, Nov. 4). Here, the only cultural programs I heard were broadcast after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: British Bouquet | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

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