Word: either
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Borgo of San Marino, eldest and smallest republic, a group of sun-bronzed hillmen gathered, resentful. Theirs is a country without public debt, a tiny, remote upland (surrounded by Italy). There unemployment is unknown because every man either tills his ground or, if he has none to till, emigrates. So it has been in San Marino years without end. No progress, no need of progress, no desire to change the round of peaceful toil which began when St. Marinus fled the persecutions of Diocletian (A. D. 284-305), and founded a colony of refugees which has become the Republic...
...free balloon. Except for the glass of his goggles he was covered with fur and leather. A machine pumped electrically-warmed oxygen into his lungs. His instruments, he' said, indicated an altitude of 41,000 feet (almost eight miles). This was higher than any man had ever been,* either by free balloon or airplane. The previous record for a free balloon was 35,433 feet; for an airplane, 40,820 feet (TIME, Sept...
Hope. The world waited?40 hours, 50 hours?no ship had seen or heard the White Bird since it soared along the Irish coast line. Captains Nungesser and Coli were either floating on the Atlantic's waves or resting in peace on its bed. Ships and planes set out from Europe and America with hopes of seeing a floating White Bird...
...five years the Little Theatre Tournament, held in Manhattan for the David Belasco Cup, has symbolized the removal of amateur theatricals from small-town drawing-rooms and carriage sheds to more or less formal theatres. The contestants produce one-act plays only, either new or published...
...makes admirable reading. It is a direct and human story, normal and natural, told without a breath either of conscious advertisement, or of unreal humility. It is written with quick and nervous energy. There is much deft description, shrewd comment, and keen insight. All through it runs a virile loyalty, and a disciplined enthusiasm which marks the spiritual expert. It is skillfully condensed, giving a true perspective and a clear impression...