Word: qua
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration caught between two conflicting sets of promises-to reduce the budget and strengthen our defenses? Did it choose the former [i.e., the "new look"] because the one thing that could not be cut, the sine qua non of our security, was the new weapons and air power...
...system under the provisions of the Feinberg law. The Feinberg law, passed in 1949 and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1952, makes membership in subversive organizations a disqualification for service with the school system. Said the board: "We arise . . . convinced that force and violence are a sine qua non of the Communist faith." ¶Denver University's Community College announced a family tuition rate: additional members of the same family may enroll in courses costing $10 at a cut-rate price of $5. Among the courses offered: Family Financial Security, Ice Skating, Personal and Social Adjustment, Chinese...
...complete this enumeration, there are the students who spend much time and energy battering one another on Soldiers Field or poring over campaign leaflets. For them, a long reading period is a sine qua...
...public judicial inquiry. The court is not bound by rules of evidence; counsels for Derham and Kelly cannot cross-examine court witnesses; and there is no final adjudication. As a matter of fact, nothing will come out of the hearings except a report by Chief Justice Stanley E. Qua. In it he will make recommendations to the Supreme Court stating whether he thinks that Derham, Kelly, and possibly Cenedella are qualified to be lawyers. It will have no direct bearing on their status as public officials. Any disbarment or disciplinary action will have to be taken by the Supreme Court...
...somewhere, and his present gazetteer title was the result. But once he washes his hands of the melted snow of the North, Morison launches into the great drive across the Central Pacific, beginning in the Gilberts. Here was the testing ground for all future amphibious operations, the sine qua non of Japan's defeat...