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Word: either (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only at the last moment that the French Government, after debating all week what to do and after failing to persuade Generalissimo Franco to agree either to setting up a neutral zone or to declaring a general amnesty, decided to open the French border not only to the fleeing army but to as many civilians as cared to enter. Probably what helped France make up her mind was the thought of what might have happened had the frontier been kept sealed. The Loyalist Army might well have decided to make a suicidal last stand on the border. Both a massacre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Police Job | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...brusque little essay on himself, published in a Soviet magazine in 1926, he said: "For me, a picture is never either an end or an achievement, but rather a happy chance and an experience." Max Jacob once said: "He saves himself by being an acrobat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art's Acrobat | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...thin in the keen autumnal air," or the tantrums of Mrs. Lincoln ("The Hell-cat is getting more Hell-cattical day by day."). Except where it touches Lincoln, the main note of his diary is one of caustic or amused astonishment, particularly toward Generals McClellan ("the little Napoleon . . . afraid either to fight or run") and Benjamin Butler ("His ignorance of war leads him constantly to require impossibilities from his subordinates and to fear impossibilities from the enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lucky Diarist | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Candidates for the Debating Council have been asked to prepare three minute speeches on either side of one of the following questions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEBATING COUNCIL TO INCREASE MEMBERSHIP | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Captain Harvey Ross wrestled a hard match at 121 against John Landerth of the Midshipmen, but two overtime periods failed to earn a decision for either man. It is conceivable that under more favorable conditions of traveling, Ross might have won. At 136, Ted Schoenberg once more showed his ability as he held Charlie Chandler of the Middies to a decision...

Author: By William W. Tyng, | Title: Grapplers Soaked by Navy Saturday As Boston, Daughaday Win Matches | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

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