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...principle of the greatest possible number of participants. The men who have discovered the benefits received in such humble places as the lacrosse field, the rifle range, and the soccer field have gone a long way towards answering the charge that Saturday football spectacles are the sine qua non of college life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOT THE ONLY PEBBLE | 11/9/1929 | See Source »

Money is a sine qua non of the research which birth-control leaders have under way. Last fortnight Mrs. Sanger gathered 500 well-to-do and persuaded New Yorkers in a ballroom of the Hotel Plaza. To stimulate donations to support

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Birth Control | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...song she could remember. That was not insouciance at the moon's stare but a way of keeping warm and awake. By and by the moon set. After 13 hr., 16 min., 45 sec. in the air alone, Record-Holder Smith returned to earth. Endurance records by women, qua women, have no official standing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Girl under Moon | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

Such was the fame of his eloquence that he gave up the law for the bigger Chatau-qua money. Incessantly he spoke on the small tradesman and farmer, and wrote about them in The Commoner, weekly journal of one man's opinion, which endured through 22 years in spite of its spotty journalism and shortage of advertisements. For on principle Bryan refused to accept advertising of trust-made goods, though his sheet "reeked with patent medicine advertising." Indifferent to his meagre advertising columns, he reveled in belaboring the Republicans for their sins, championed religious freedom (the Dayton trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Peculiar | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...from the Princetonian to set itself up as dramatic arbiter whose opinion is the sine qua non of theatrical criticism, but a four-to-one preference one way or another is certainly the essence of standardization. And when an aethetic concensus is in favor of the inartistic--or let us say, the hackneyed--deus ex machina as opposed to the more logical and, therefore from a dramatic standopint, the more artistic unhappy ending--it is time to do something beyond complimenting ourselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

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