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Three justices of the Massachusetts Superior Court will render the decision. They are: Stanley E. Qua, Nelson P. Brown, and Joseph Walsh...
...this the command of the language is an absolute sine qua non. Inexperto crede. I have attempted at various times to become familiar with Greek, but have not had much success because of my late start. The more I try to understand the major monuments of the Greek world, the more I am baffled by my inability to be sure exactly what significance is to be attached to the expressions on which arguments and descriptions turn. A smattering is better than nothing, and so is a dictionary, but there is no substitute for intimacy...
...reluctant to enter a conference which Britain is urging chiefly with hopes of strengthening her pound and drawing more French and U. S. gold into world circulation. But Whitehall and Threadneedle Street seemed to think last week that progress can be made by urging the conference as a sine qua non without which general prosperity simply cannot be restored. Such a conference would doubtless decide that War Debts and Reparations should be cancelled (a view most "international" U. S. bankers already hold); might also decide that the Gold Standard is inadequate to back world credit needs (an alternative being bimetallism...
...Hells. In Mississippi (estimated crop: 1,500,000 bales) Governor Theodore Gilmore Bilbo would no more call a special session for cotton than he would call one last spring for the State's fiscal troubles (TIME, May 4). His sine qua non for any special session: a written promise from every legislator not to impeach him. Declared Governor Bilbo last week: "I'll see the Legislature through 40,000,000 hells before I will call it without a pledge from each member...
Conservative M. P.'s, conscious that DIGNITY is the sine qua non of a true British Parliament, sat owlishly upon their benches, silent for the most part, but exclaiming murmurously from time to time, "Wring his neck. Hear, hear! Wring his neck. Hear, hear, hear!" Mr. Speaker, as a last resort, adjourned the sitting and departed, but still the panting, tugging, shirt-tearing, tie-mussing, hair-tousling tussle went...