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Word: either (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ambassador Kennedy that he has "one sharp eye on the market and one fond eye on his children." He is peculiarly fitted to perform such a feat, as his picture on the cover shows that he is exotropic, i. e., when he looks straight ahead with either eye the other turns out. . . . Maybe this is why he is doing such a good job of observing what is happening on all sides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 2, 1939 | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...heart of the question which Congress is now going to debate is whether the repeal or the retention of the embargo on arms is the more likely to lead the United States into the war. It is evident that it is impossible for the advocates of either policy to prove their case conclusively. . . . The best that Congress can hope to do now is to adopt that policy which, on a cool estimate of the probabilities as we know them today, seems the least likely to have consequences which will put us in a difficult and dangerous position later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Quotes and Arguments | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...well-known authority on Elizabethan literature, Spencer is believed to be the first American to held a permanent teaching job in the field of English literature at either Oxford or Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spencer Kept in America by War; Will Teach Here | 9/28/1939 | See Source »

...Congress which is currently meeting in Special Session may either: (a) retain the present Neutrality Act; (b) repeal it and substitute Senator Pittman's "Cash and Carry" plan; or (c) repeal it without making any further legislation. If the existing statue is retained, all shipments of arms, ammunition, and implements of war will be barred. It says nothing of the raw materials and semi-finished products which made up 85 percent of U. S. shipments to the Allies during World War I. Although the "Cash and Carry" proposal prevents American ships from carrying cargo to belligerents, the present law makes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FACTS OF THE MATTER | 9/28/1939 | See Source »

...Treaty of Versailles either had to be revised as time passed, or England and France . . . had to keep Germany weak by force. Neither policy was followed. Europe wavered back and forth between the two. As a result, another war has begun ... a war which may even lead to the end of our western civilization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Hero Speaks | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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