Word: neither
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leash. When a "monkey" beat up a "lion," Maine's Barrows observed dryly: "We always handle Democrats that way." South Carolina's Johnston danced with Host Hoffman's secretary. Utah's Blood was attentive to the wife of North Carolina's Hoey. Neither the Governor of North Carolina nor the Governor of South Carolina took a drink. Alabama's Bibb Graves and his lady, Dixie Bibb Graves, the new Senator from Alabama, were harassed by newshawks seeking statements about Associate Justice Hugo Black (see p. 10). Only Florida's Cone, who talked long...
Chinese staff officers were not too depressed by this defeat, however. For many weeks their strategy in the north had been deliberately to sacrifice the provincial troops that seemed to have neither proper artillery nor planes, and prepare for a real defense at Paoting, 85 mi. southwest of Peiping, where modern divisions of Chiang's own army were being rushed. Japanese officers apparently expected to meet these well-equipped troops at any instant last week. Japanese scouting planes saw large numbers of anti-aircraft batteries, equipment that had been entirely unnecessary heretofore...
...University of West Virginia, said he thought quintuplets was the most prodigious previous cow birth. Last week in Washington, the American Genetic Association said that quadruple calves occurred in one birth in every half million. For quintuplets and sextuplets they would not even guess at the figures. Neither would the Department of Agriculture. Nobody there had ever heard of sextuple calves. Consensus was that Dairyman Poth's sextuplets were probably a world record...
Also on the program is "Marry the Girl," with Hugh Herbert and Mary Boland, which is neither more nor less than what is expected. Each player overdoes his specialty giggle in a trite plot...
...This assumption, current in the provincial towns of New Haven, Princeton, and Hanover, is as superstitious as the one which holds that every German is like Hitler or every American a Jim Farley. Instead, every Harvard man places foremost the fact that he represents no type, no product. Neither does a Harvard man have an accent. Certainly accents to exist in Cambridge; they are two kinds: Back Bay and affected. As for clothes, keep in mind the ancient aphorism: "Clothes make the Williams man, but the Radcliffe girl makes...