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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...family's old Chateau d'Amboise, where I hope to live with my wife and children." Henri's friends in Paris shook their heads in contemplation of the ancient royal chateau's lack of plumbing and other conveniences, but, as Henri explained: "It isn't easy to find a place to settle down with such a large family as mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: End of Pretending | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

...Soaring. Among the most vocal of the signers was Ad Reinhardt, who paints as abstractly as possible. "Anyone who would sit down to paint grass today," says Reinhardt, "is just an illustrator. What we see isn't real; everybody knows that." Reinhardt's pictures have nothing to do with anything except "the aesthetic experience, the painting experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Revolt of the Pelicans | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

...United States Weather Bureau isn't convinced. Despite extravagant publicity in the press, Harry Wexler, chief of the Bureau's Special Scientific Services Division, says flatly that "it has not been demonstrated that cloud seeding is a factor in producing a significant amount of precipitation." In nine months of its own tests in Ohio the Weather Bureau got few results unless there was natural rain within 30 miles, none without natural rain within 40-60 miles. According to Wexler, the New Mexico tests were inconclusive. Rain occurred somewhere in the state whenever the researchers operated, and also when they...

Author: By Daniel Ellsberg, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 6/2/1950 | See Source »

...Europe inside the cover sets the tone of this new book by the present Chief of the Washington Bureau of the Christian Science Moulter. Shown in grey are "countries still dominated by Russia." "The Curtain Isn't Iron is an optimistic book...

Author: By Herbert P. Gleason, | Title: Optimism About the Cold War | 5/26/1950 | See Source »

...told 50 persons that "gambling itself isn't dangerous. It's when they start to fix and corrupt that we musts stop them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bookies in Square May Live On Police Fix, Says Fingold | 5/24/1950 | See Source »

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