Word: neither
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Neither the law of the country nor the law of his religion would forbid a second wife. In Albania, the signing of the marriage contract by the bride's father and by the groom, makes a marriage. It is legal and binding. There is, however, another law relating to marriages. The bride cannot leave her father's house, no matter how legally she may be married, until her husband comes for her, with appropriate ceremony symbolizing marriage by capture. It is known as "taking" the bride. If he never comes she can do nothing about it. When Achmet...
...unionists among the 31,000 employes of the 17 strike-closed plants would unfortunately have to keep on shifting for themselves. G. M., said Mr. Knudsen emphatically, had no intention of provoking violence by employing strikebreakers. As neither side showed signs of yielding, Madam Secretary Perkins this week invoked the Congressional statute which empowers the Secretary of Labor to mediate a labor dispute "whenever . . . the interests of industrial peace so re- quire." virtually commanded the G. M. and C. I. O. leaders to resume with her at once the conference which John Lewis had disrupted...
...main problem of the school, as the Commission predicted, will be to achieve a position which is neither that of a symposium in political philosophy nor a mere trade school for the mechanics of government. It is of great importance that this middle of the road be closely followed. The higher realms of political theory are proper fields for those who intend to teach, but those whose immediate business is the government service have neither the time nor the energy to spare for such studies. On the other hand, the Littauer school cannot fill the shoes ordered...
...walking were more decently and consistently planned than the average American small town, where frame shacks and ferro-concrete skyscrapers jostle each other. In Cambridge (you must get used to the fact that there is a Cambridge other than that which exists for your convenience) there is neither skyscraper nor shack, but a lot of demure, Puritan red-brick, keeping its undistinguished self to itself...
...remedy this situation, the Council offered "no magic formula." It neither condemned the schools, nor suggested, as some have done, that the University put them out of business by establishing its own. It did, however, recommend that University publications should not be allowed to accept advertising from the tutoring schools. This would mean a $3,000 annual loss to The Crimson alone...