Word: neither
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt asked them what they had done so far to justify Congress' seven months sojourn in Washington. Speaker Bankhead started to rattle off a list of bills passed-bills for the most part neither important nor publicly known. The President squelched him with a roar of laughter. Presently the visitors came out and gave the press a list of five bills to be acted on before adjournment...
...inspected tubes found on them said to contain typhoid and sleeping-sickness germs and viruses. Although Death was the prompt sentence of the court martial. President Franco intervened, delayed the Frenchmen's execution "pending an international inquiry." With Spain's civil war in its 13th month, neither side had yet used poison...
...essential to create an organization for study, whose economic value would be marked by its triple characteristics-universality; permanence; independence. . . . It would have to be as independent as possible of nationalistic influence. . . . Neither lowering of customs barriers, nor any other partial measure would put an end to the disorders which threaten peace. If we are really to avoid war and bring back humanity to more peaceful sentiments, we must have the courage to face economic questions in their broadest aspect and find a solution for such great problems threatening peace as these...
With this exchange of tentative pokes in the public prints, pudgy William Green of the A. F. of L. and puffy Heywood Broun of the American Newspaper Guild last week started something that neither of them could finish before the week was out. Mr. Green suggested that the Guild would be better off if Mr. Broun would resign as president, since his activities had left it "torn to shreds, with its subordinate officers set out like ducks on a rock for the publishers to shoot...
...glanced across the turgid river, then shrieked and scurried into the ramshackle house after her husband. Dee Wyatt popped his head out, took one look, and straightway headed for the home of Bramlett Bateman, nearest white farmer. He and his wife, he informed Farmer Bateman, had seen a monster. Neither of them had been drinking. Farmer Bateman skeptically stepped over to the river, then let out a whoop. Sure enough, there was a monster, "as big as a box car and as slick as a slimy elephant without legs." Farmer Bateman rushed off to Newport, six miles away...