Word: nay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republican party has lost effectiveness because it has made the people believe that it is completely unresponsive to the problems which today plague millions. If it is ever to destroy that impression, the party must be rescued from the grip of hundred per cent "nay" voters like Luce. Republicans of this district can render a great service to their party, their district, and their country by electing to Congress a man like Eliot whose attitude permits him to grapple with the problems we all face, and whose ability gives some promise of a successful solution...
...holes along the edges enable the operator to pick out immediately and in correct order all cards for overdue books on nay particular day. For this purpose all the cards that come in during the day are stacked together and put in a press which cuts a notch in the hole corresponding to that day, after which the cards are filed in the record. Then on the days when books fall due, only three times a week this year, an operator goes through the files with a long "darning needle." He thrusts this through the holes for that...
...possibility, nay the probability, of such a progenitor has thrown the entire staff of the Geology department into utter confusion. The retreat, headed by Professor Dither, has not yet begun, but the imminent final in Geology 1 this morning promises to be the scene of a scientific polemic comparable to the Scopes trial. If Professor Dither is able to stall off the reporters, the examination will be given as if no such event as Spinachseed's discovery had transpired. The professor states that his strategy will be to pretend he has never heard of Spinachseed. He has been quoted...
...Nay, fearless with what scorn...
...Bible was not written as a political tool, nor as a history or a grammar for those yet unborn, even as we ourselves, to puzzle over. Nay, it was a monument erected out of the sincerity of men's hearts to one of the greatest institutions mankind has ever known. I should be studied as such, with realizations of that sincerity and with appreciation of those timeless truths...