Word: qua
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Convincingness, the sine qua non of illustration, led even Mobile-Maker Alexander Calder to resort to the recognizable for his illustrations of a recent edition of Aesop's Fables. Calder's depiction of a vain crow being adorned with peacock feathers by his feathered friends has more wit than force, and looks more like a bent-wire construction than a drawing, but any child can grasp it and enjoy...
...petitioners, supported by the Association for the Arnold arboretum, had brought suit against the state Attorney-General, contesting his decision not to prosecute the University for alleged breach of public trust. Chief Justice Stanley E. Qua of the Supreme Judicial Court ruled that the Court has no legal right to review the decisions of the State's Attorney-General...
...decision, handed down by Chief Justice Stanley E. Qua, affirmed that the court has no right to review the decisions of the Attorney-General, thus ceasing the Arboretum Association's bid to overrule Attorney-General George Fingold's 1953 decision favoring the University...
...case came up for a hearing two weeks ago before Chief Justice Qua and Justices Williams, Lummus, and Couhihan. Both sides spoke at length, but the Court for the most part interrupted only Mr. Dodge. The questions referred to the writ of Mandamus, and the merits of the Arboretum dispute itself were not stressed. At one point the Chief Justice commented, "Petitioners position appears to be a novel...
...Gardner Club last night won the Law School's annual Ames Competition. Associate Justice Harold H. Burton of the U.S. Supreme Court, Chief Justice Stanley E. Qua of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and Associate Justice Nathan L. Jacobs of the New Jersey Court served as judges for the Competition's finals...