Word: unless
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...course, reluctance of this sort is understandable. It represents quite an upheaval, no doubt, to require acceptance of a credit for a not too sharply defined course given in high school. Other Departments besides English have similar qualms. Yet, unless the Departments give full credence to A.P. credits, the value of the program can never be fully realized...
Marc E. Leland, fomer Council President, urged the representatives not to rejoin NSA until or unless the student body becomes sufficiently interested to make the College an active member...
While pointing out that the mid-year figures are only "highly suggestive presumptive evidence," Richard T. Gill, Senior Tutor of Leverett House, stated that "no House will be substantially better, unless there is a radical change in pattern this spring...
Earnest is a comedy of manners--not a duplication but certainly a parody of the manners of Society in the English 1890's. Its characters are frequently rude on purpose, never by accident; they often exhibit bad manners, but it is impossible to conceive of their having no manners--unless, evidently, you are Stephen Aaron, who directed this production. Mr. Aaron: a gentleman never sits while a lady is standing, especially if the lady is a Lady, and no less if "she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair." Moreover, a fashionable young...
...letters. From the days of Thomas Hughes (Tom Brown's Schooldays), almost the first things heard out of an English writer are usually the half-strangulated noises of one noosed in an old school tie. As an obsessive theme the Old School has no counterpart in U.S. fiction, unless it is the Home Town and the shouts of the boys who cry Wolfe...