Word: nay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true student cannot be bound by such restrictions. He will see in Emerson the model of what his attitude should be. "If there are conflicting evidences, why not state them? If there is not ground for a candid thinker to make up his mind, yea or nay,--why not suspend the judgement? . . . . I neither affirm nor deny. I stand here to try the case. I am here to consider...
Came the War. Benito caught fire of d'Annunzio, and in 1919 he said: "I yearn for a paganizing people, loving life, struggle, progress, not blindly believing in revealed truths, nay despising miraculous pharmacopoeia. It has no room in an intense movement of minds and activities for formulae, parties and men monopolizing divine 'specifics...
...formalities go, then, Wrangel Island belongs to the U. S. But for 40 years it was so neglected and forgotten that when Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Arctic explorer, decided that it would be nice to claim it for Great Britain?that is, for Canada?a while ago, no one said him nay. The question of ownership is still regarded as "controversial...
...answered "Aye." One portion of the House smiled triumphantly-they knew that this one vote gave them victory. But the Senator who had been out of the Chamber began to think-he had misunderstood how the question was put. He rose and altered his vote from "Aye" to "Nay." The bill was beaten. One set of faces ceased to smile, another set began. This was what happened when the Bursum Bill, to increase the pensions of veterans and widows of the Wars from 1812 to 1904 inclusive, was up for second consideration. It had been passed by both Houses...
...fund. It is gratifying to find that the interest yielded by this method exceeds that yielded by others; and it will no doubt be of great satisfaction to everyone to know that if he dies before his policy is fully paid up, the college nevertheless receives the full amount. Nay, he even does the University a service by dying as Quickly as possible, since the whole sum begins to draw interest sooner in such a case; and moreover, he saves money himself. The Class Committee, has of course, no intention of urging men to die immediately after paying their first...