Word: qua
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prime asset of Rhodes is its obvious sincerity and meticulous attention to fact. Another asset is its refusal to drag in that usual cinema qua non, a false romance. Yet these qualities, which make it good history, also make it a painfully pedestrian picture. Walter Huston has to boom out such lines as: "Napoleon tried to unite Europe and failed. I am trying to unite South Africa, and I will not fail...
...presiding judge in last night's litigation was the Honorable James B. Drew, Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. His colleagues were the Honorable William W. Moss, Justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island; and the Honorable Stanley E. Qua, Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts...
...business organization may be able to satisfy the University, but the majority will not be so fortunate. It is wise of the University to take steps to prevent the recurrence of a situation such as the collapse of the Undergraduate laundry last February, and financial responsibility should be sine qua non of all business enterprises. But so far Mr. Durant has not stated his attitude on student organizations, and his atter ambiguity detracts from an otherwise complete code of regulations...
Possession of a U. S. passport is the sine qua non for Negroes whom the Soviet Government is training as Communist dynamite. Reason: they must be able to get home as bona fide U. S. citizens to do any good when the hoped-for explosion of U. S. Revolution comes...
Laboratory work is the sine qua non of good chemistry. Laboratory work is necessary; it must be required of students; and it must be long and hard if it is to be worth while. If you do not like a stiff field of concentration like chemistry, I suggest you roll you hoop in Fogg Art Museum rather than in Mallinckrodt. L. A. DeBlois...