Word: either
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...urge William Howard Taft "on no account to divide the battleship force between the two coasts. . . ." Whereupon T. R. wrote "Dear Will: . . . I should obey no direction of Congress and pay heed to no popular sentiment, if it went wrong in so vital a matter. . . . Keep the battle fleet either in one ocean or the other. . . ." Roosevelt I qualified by saying "prior to the completion of the Panama Canal," but today's admirals as good students of Alfred Mahan believe in one fleet always together, even with the Canal...
...Requiem the singers face a problem quite different from any they have met in a work of major proportions in recent years. It is probably harder to perform well than either the Beethoven Missa Solemnis or the Bach St. Matthew's Passion. Though the latter are physically more difficult, they are comparatively clear-cut in their problems of nuance and phrasing. They are not particularly intimate in their sentiments; that is, there is a certain broadness about them which lends itself to interpretation by groups almost as well as by individuals. In the Requiem, however, the expression is much more...
...Berlin having been politically hyphenated while the King was on the throne, there was nothing he personally could do about splitting the combination; but perhaps if he abdicated in favor of his son, Italy might stand a better chance of escaping from the axis. Would Pius XII put either his Papal blessing or his political okay on such a succession...
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. last week announced that it had constructed, and would exhibit at the New York World's Fair, a new electromechanical man. His name: Elektro. In either profile or full-face he looks not unlike Actor John Barrymore, and with a total of 26 tricks in his repertoire, he is probably the most talented robot ever built...
...electrical relays (circuits actuated by current variations in other circuits) which control his eleven motors by remote control. He can walk forward or backward, with a peculiar limp (only one leg bends at the knee and both huge feet are equipped with rollers). He can salute with either hand. He can count up to ten on his fingers, bending each finger individually. By means of photoelectric cells equipped with color filters, he can tell red from green. He can talk and sing (by voice recordings played through an amplifier). He can suck smoke from a cigaret placed in his mouth...