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Word: qua (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...status quo of Cornell is lower than it has been at any preceding time.' - Review. The writer evidently thinks that the sine qua non, the multum in parvo, and the sine die still maintain their old standard, but we are unable to glean from the article whether the e pluribus unum and the et tu Brute of Cornell are on the rise or decline, although the reference to the `sub judice questions' may cover the ground." - Yale Courant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 1/25/1878 | See Source »

...qua non metuam mori...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HONORS. | 7/3/1877 | See Source »

...left there with my book in my hand. I would not go, they might have to send for a doctor. I took up the book again: "That was not right, was it?" I thought. '"Pro qua' means, 'for whom,' and not 'on which account'; but I have made worse mistakes than that, and he did not notice it either...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HONORS. | 7/3/1877 | See Source »

...into a verse. But we strongly doubt if the translator knew that the em in falcem would go out before et, since line eight can only be scanned at all by keeping am in maturam before ab. In the same line, quo, though not positively wrong, should be rather qua...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYING WITH EDGED TOOLS. | 5/4/1877 | See Source »

Fama malum, qua non aliud velocius ullum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE REIGN OF TERROR IN BOSTON. | 4/10/1874 | See Source »

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