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...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...
...encouraging word from the millowner's wife. The first complication was the millowner's disgust when Herrie joined his fellow-workers on strike. In the starvation-haunted months before the workers were beaten, Herrie reciprocated that disgust, discovered the bitter source of such humor as: "Nay, you don't have to bring no hard times to Skirthorpe. . . . This is the exporting center. . . ." Herrie's part in the strike ended when he was badly injured in a cave-in while stealing coal. Recovered, he joined his blacklisted friend Tawpun as a riveter in a neighboring city...
...Anglican Bishop of Calcutta, onetime (1885-98) headmaster of Harrow School; at Sevenoaks, Kent, England. Among his Harrow pupils were Earl Baldwin and Winston Churchill. Bishop Welldon recently remarked, "I will probably go down in history as the headmaster of Harrow who was forced reluctantly to punish -nay, even to flog-a rebellious Winston Churchill...