Word: na
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Glasgow the shrewd city fathers debated hotly a similar matter: whether they would appropriate £15,000 ($72,900) to entertain the Sovereigns next July. Cried Councilman Douglas MacConaughty, striking the table with his cane: " 'Twud na' be worth it! Ha' we a brass farthin' too many in the common good funds?" His peers, more hospitable, voted the appropriation...
...Great Lakes freighters are long, na-row-beamed, flattish-decked vessels, modifications of the original roundish-decked "whalebacks." The "whalebacks" were so eminently fitted for transporting bulk cargoes like ore, coal and grain that they became world-famed. So now, in popular usage, "whaleback" is often wrongly applied to any lake carrier. Sculptor Daniel Chester French (designer of the Lincoln at Washington, the John Harvard at Cambridge) followed this popular conception when, in his symbolic group before the unwashed Cleveland postoffice, he placed a whaleback on the arm of Commerce to typify modern lake traffic...
...September, the occasion celebrated last week was considered an informal farewell to his officers. They opined that Pipe Major John Gillies of the Canadian Seaforth Highlanders well expressed their feelings when he presented a Gaelic sentiment on parchment to Lord and Lady Byng, saying "Nach bu mhaiseach an ni na'n robh thu tighinn thugain an aite bhi ga'r fargail...
...stood looking at a giraffe: 'Thur ain't no sich animal.' " "Pardon me," said the efficient young clerk, "but there is?here it is," and he handed me TIME. I returned to the cottage veranda and although Bishop Brent was valiantly extolling the League of Na- tions in the nearby Amphitheatre, I read that copy of TIME from the upper left hand corner to the lower right hand one (there were no advertisements then**). After which, I "took my pen in hand" and sent in my subscription. Since then, I have brought it to the attention of my club women...
...na fou, we're na that...