Word: either
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...student does not respond to the conference or to the tasks assigned him, it is either because he has no interest, active or latent, in the field in which he is concentrating, or because his tutor is not interesting and does not inspire. Avoidance of this latter possibility is essential. On the personalities of the tutors depends the efficiency of the system, and care in their selection is the administrative function, of primary importance. As to the other possibility, a capable tutor can judge of a man's interest in his work, and can recommend a change of concentration either...
...recent manoeuvres at Hawaii, although they have been described at great length in the press, have not resulted as yet in a conclusive victory for either the "attack" by the invading warships and seaplanes or the "defense" by the territorial forces. Although it is natural that, with eight hundred Army and Navy officers debating the issue, the prospect of ascertaining who won should remain remote, the operations themselves showed clearly that neither force gained and indisputable advantage. Hence the claim of both army and navy that the operations demonstrated the inadequacy of the present forces must not be taken...
...spoken altogether in vain." Scholar, he was lecturing to scholars. His words were not meat, he thought, for the hounds of the press and, with an almost pathetic earnestness, he tried to shoo them away.* First, the Dean insisted that the New Testament contained no detailed guidance either for the making of sermons or for the conduct of modern civilization: "The gospel was good news, not .good advice. .. ,. . We can find no economic prin ciples in the Gospel...
Herewith are excerpts from letters come to the desks of the editors during the past week. They are selected primarily for the information they contain either supplementary to, or corrective of, news previously published in TIME...
True slang is born of sudden inspiration, or actual need for a specifying word. It strengthens the language until that time arrives when its meaning has been so twisted and broadened that it becomes no longer respectable. Either it will escape this calamity and become a real word, or like the term "flapper", which originally was an apt expression, it will sink to the level of drab profanity...