Word: nay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fabre shunned the "solemnity, nay, better, the dryness, of the schools" in his writing, as he did the dreary probing of dead insects in his studies. To the pedants he said: "You rip up the animal and I study it alive . . . You pry into death, I pry into life...
...Gallery Director John Rothen stein in a public test of the Academy's taste in art collecting (TIME, March 14] and announced his decision to retire nex year. But Horse Painter Munnings was still feeling his oats; he made the R.A. dinner an occasion to register his emphatic nay to modern...
...faculty committee, Butterworth and Phillips finally admitted party membership. The committee decided that was not cause for dismissal. The committee also cleared the three who had admitted to onetime membership. But Professor-Gundlach, who still would not say yea or nay, was another matter entirely. The committee recommended he be dismissed for his very evasiveness...
...Europe, Asia, Africa, to outposts in North and South America, and on islands across the seven seas--yet, at home, kept up the highest standard of living the world has ever known? The United States system, as it has been and still is, needs make no apologies to nay other...
According to Dean Kerby-Miller, the Administrative Board feels nay the present system of separate examinations involves educational disadvantages to Radcliffe students. She noted that professors with combined classes could not be present at the beginning of the tests to clarify instructions and answers about test material. "This is an important consideration in a matter as important as an examination," she said. "The time lost could mean a significant difference in a student's grade...