Word: noughts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Rush Holt's 30th birthday falls on June 19 and although the huge Democratic majority could, if it would, seat him, it knows only too well the national howl the Republicans would set up about the New Deal caring nought for the Constitution. Hence Majority Leader Robinson ordered Youngster Holt to bide his time. In June, if Congress is still in session, the majority will vote Holt his seat. Meantime he will cast no votes, but he, too, has a seat with his name on it, an office and clerks, and the expectation of $833 a month...
...TALE OF A SHIPWRECK-James Norman Hall-Nought on Mifflin...
...mass pacifistic meeting on the steps of Memorial Hall this morning. If the Students' League were merely holding a peace assembly on Armistice Day, there would be no real objection. But the juxtaposition of the Cadets' marching and the League's meeting is obviously more than a coincidence. Apparently nought but divine intervention can stop the League. In the absence of such a miracle, it is sincerely to be hoped that the League will take pains to prevent specific acts from giving force to this supposed coincidence...
...leave them there, to wither or to work their way out. She writes in judgment, like the blight; and God (three parts machinery, one part Dix) lends her a helping hand. The finger of water that had unaccountably appeared in the canyon's bed was not for nought. Asleep in a hut up the canyon, where they have gone for lack of houseroom, Cornelia, Rosamond, Isabel are warned by a dog's bark, just in time to watch the moving finger begin to writhe and write...
...Israel watcheth over each, and? doth not watch for nought...