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...manglers galore in show business, but Jimmy has a poet's ear for the mot injuste ("Let me hear that high note, maestro ! . . . What a note ! . . . A promissory note, if I ever heard one!'") And Jimmy is a past master of timing-that comedian's sine qua non. In the grand old days of the comedy team of (Lou) Clayton, (Eddie) Jackson and Durante, which broke up in 1931, Jimmy led them in a repertory of nightclub shenanigans (elaborately punctuated by a disreputable-looking jazz band) which spiraled into the highest humorous mathematics...
...matter of fact, widespread subsidies did not become the sine qua non of effective price control until it became clear that neither Congress nor the Administration was willing to fight for a really effective anti-inflation program on the taxation, farm-price and wage-freezing fronts...
Chemistry is a sine qua non for concentrators, at least to the stage of Chemistry 2 (Organic Chemistry). Elementary Physics is also required, although it is possible to have this requirement waived...
...which a democracy such as ours has to contend with, but which is wholly non-existent under a totalitarian system is that of the degree of free press which should be allowed in wartime. A large amount of popular criticism of the government and its officials is a sine qua non of popular criticism of the government, and we would be denying ourselves one of the most valuable features of the American inheritance if we restricted it beyond the immediate requirement of military censorship. But during an all-out war such as this one, we must distinguish between healthy, constructive...
...Cincpac's statement was more likely a smoke screen to cover the coming attack. The raid may have been the first operation in the series of assaults which will be the sine qua non of U.S. victory in the Pacific: reduction, base by prickly base, of the fortified Japanese islands which interdict the U.S. supply lines to the Far East. That process will not begin with any conviction until the Allies enjoy clear naval supremacy in the Pacific. But raids like last week's may prove very useful as preliminary softeners. If Japanese aircraft and submarine bases...