Word: either
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What is a poor egg? One with either watery or turbid white, a yolk that flattens out or bursts because of its thinned membrane, a dull appearance throughout the contents...
Absurdly simple! One either rings up one's broker or steps round to the Royal Exchange itself. Ignoring that justly celebrated mural Phoenicians Bartering with the Ancient Britons in Cornwall, one presses straight on and finds a board where election futures were quoted, last week...
...Liberals win 84 seats, and would receive an additional pound for every seat they win above that number. Inversely, if one sells Liberals at 80, and if only 70 candidates of that party are returned to the House, one pockets a crisp "tenner" ($48.60). To guess wrong in either buying or selling is to lose a pound a seat...
...quotation board, last week, showed that "The City" expects to see the Conservatives and Laborites matched against each other as two nearly equal Goliaths-with Liberalism's small David Lloyd George twirling between them in his slingshot the dangerous pellet called "balance of power." By allying himself with either Goliath, smart Little David would lay the other low; and although he can scarcely hope to hold the Prime Ministry himself, he could keep the unfortunate incumbent of that office on the hooks...
...will make no exceptions,'' ran the General's order to the superintendents, "in enforcing the inflexible rule that girls wearing short skirts or silk stockings or using either lipstick or powder are not allowed to enter any public school...