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Word: nay (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whether he will ever be able to distinguish them from the blue sky above is another question. As a matter of fact they are so high now that they are beyond his low line of vision and have floated there since the beginning of the year 1 A. D. nay since Abel built his altar which was sometime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 1, 1927 | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

...picture has come to Boston. It arrives heralded by laudatory--nay, panegyrical--criticisms from New York. There appears to be a distinct impression that Mr. de Mille has generally improved the original. He has added a great many details to enhance the glory of his film. He has given it what one would expect from him--lavishness. The result is a thing of beauty and a joy forever, according to the blushing advertisements...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DIVINE CECIL | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

...contend that the accused is guilty of homicide, attempted insurrection, and carrying a rifle," boomed the Attorney General. "The homicide must be considered as committed, because it was prevented by forces [policemen] entirely beyond the control of Zaniboni, whom you have heard confess, nay, boast [TIME, April 25] that he would have killed Premier Mussolini if not apprehended. In these circumstances, the State asks the maximum penalty for the accused and his accomplice, General Luigi Capello...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: 30 Years | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...Italians own reputedly 96% of the commercial enterprises on the coast of Jugoslavia facing Italy and hope someday to seize that coast, the outcry of last week was intentionally exaggerated by the outcriers. Italy has assumed by treaty (TIME, Dec. 13) a virtual protectorate over Albania, and is helping-nay, forcing -that little republic to arm against Jugoslavia. Similarly the Jugoslavs are preparing to meet the attack. But last week the status quo was almost certainly one of preparation, not of mobilization. Only an irresponsible overt act on the frontier seemed capable of kindling swift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Scared | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...bottom of the hill. Having filled their columns with the same sort of thing before, they now found it too late to stop. The tabloids, moreover, had made of the Brownings "news" which newspapers could not, they felt, afford to omit. The Hearst Journal was willing enough, nay, eager, to rush its leading staff members to the trial, including saccharine Nell Brinkley who discovered a "lesson to mothers" for the front page. But the editor of the New York Herald Tribune may well have pondered before deciding the sensation was so unavoidable that he must assign to it Star Reporters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Orgy | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

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