Word: neither
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife's demeanor after her hard day's washing. More recent and not at all apocryphal is the account handed down by Johann Nepomuk Franz Aloys Senefelder, a ragtag Bavarian actor & playwright, of the fretful day in 1796 when he was so poor he had neither paper nor ink with which to write his laundry list. Senefelder. whose plays no one would print, had been trying to make himself his own engraver by practicing writing backward on slabs of limestone which he picked up around Munich. In wax, backward, he wrote the laundry list on a piece...
...presiding bishop be elected permanently (to retire at 70) instead of every six years, be relieved of any diocesan jurisdiction and be made president of the Church's National Council, its business and missionary body. To call the presiding bishop an archbishop as was suggested in 1934, is neither recommended nor disapproved in the commission's report. Presiding Bishop Perry's term is up, and last week he was thought agreeable to being reelected. Other likely candidates: Bishop Cook, Bishop Hobson, Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill of Boston, Bishop George Ashton Oldham of Albany, Bishop George Craig Stewart...
...Mills was as outstanding at Harvard as he was in later life. He completed his undergraduate course in two years, and was one of the ranking students at the Law School. But neither his college friends nor his friends outside need to testify to his great qualities. For his whole life has shown his sincerity, honesty, and even judgment...
...among the sixty persons who have signed a petition addressed to the Special Legislative Commission investigating "subversive elements" in Massachusetts. The petition, which will be received by Commission chairman Sybil Holmes today, states that "undue time and attention is being allotted to the Communists, with the risk that neither time nor money will suffice for the Nazi and Fascist part of the current investigations...
...stadium was filled to capacity with roaring, cheering, excited masses of humanity. Two teams, representing middle-western colleges, were battling it out on the well-marked expensive grid-iron below. It was the annual classic event between two so-called Universities, although neither University had ever distinguished itself for anything but an extraordinary capacity to turn out all-American football players...