Word: nay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...toes, reasserted his belief that cosmic radiations replenish earth's energy loss, referred to his scientific opponent Sir James Hopwood: Jeans, British astronomer who believes the world is dying. "If Sir James Jeans prefers to hold one view and I another no one can say us nay. The one thing of which you may be quite sure is that neither of us knows anything about it." Dr. Millikan reviewed 100 years of scientific thought and labor, named what he esteemed as ten most important contributions...
...gratis an appropriately two-faced record with, obverse, a fox-trot arrangement of two Yale football songs and, reverse, a ditto of Princeton's Cannon Song March and Dean West's Triple Cheer, featuring. Mr. Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee, ph.B. Yale '27. It was, we, gather, through the unwillingness, nay refusal, of Harvard to enter into a phonographic entente cordiale with Yale that we are permitted this unprecedented opportunity to enter the Valhalla hitherto occupied exclusively by the University of Maine...
...aspect of college football which the Carnegie Report did not include, and upon which it said neither yea nor nay, is the system of scheduling the games themselves. Today the H. A. A. issues the Harvard football schedule for 1932, although these games will not be played until two and one half years from now, or until all but the present Freshmen have departed...
...Maritime Alps," not far from Nice. There he ruled supreme, a benevolent despot. Fontenay, an English painter, meets Mayor Tombarel, falls under the spell of his courteous, charm, becomes a frequent visitor, a fast friend. In the shady garden of Tombarel's mountain house or in Fonte-nay's villa at Nice the old Frenchman passes many an hour in wordy reminiscence. At each encounter he narrates an episode, always honorable, not always legal, of his eventful life. Author Locke, as usual, has written a very readable, gently humorous, gently sentimental, plausibly romantic tale...
...time being the Student Vagabond's much abused conscience cooperating with his pocket-book requires, nay, demands a little longer dalliance in his Lowell House construction shack...