Word: qua
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...learning that graduate and professional training, indeed the whole activity of adult life, find proper definition and exercise. Indeed, though it may seem extravagant to some, to me it seems not too much to say that the transforming and quickening task of the College is almost the very since qua non of civilization itself...
...type of operation, which has been abandoned in some medical centers, must have been wrong. They cited impressive authorities. Dr. Burrill B. Crohn, who first described and named the disease, says in his basic text, Regional Ileitis, that cutting off the diseased ileum "is a sine qua non to the success of any operation." Less than two years ago, at a doctors' round table, New York Hospital Surgeon William F. Nickel Jr. said to Crohn: "One should never [join] small bowel to large bowel . . . without dividing the small bowel, because those patients invariably get into trouble in our experience...
...same way he brought buildings, Sacher set out to buy a faculty. He had to. Given the philosophy of starting at the top, the faculty was the sine qua non. He succeded in getting men like the late Ludwig Lewisohn, Leonard Bernstein '39, A.H. Maslow, Max Lerner, Irving Gifford Fine '37, Herbert Marcuse, and Frank Manuel...
...controversial Swedish picture One Summer of Happiness, which the Beacon Hill Theatre in Boston wanted to exhibit. The lawyers for Times Flms used some arguments similar to those Brewer had employed. But they also tried to attack the blue laws as an infringement upon freedom of religion. Chief Justice Qua ruled that such arguments were irrelevant and ordered the counsel to sit down. The final decision of The Times case, however, depended on the Brattle ruling, stating that this precedent was "enough to dispose of this matter for all practical purposes...
...Stanley Qua, chief of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court . . . LL.D...