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Word: neither (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Presumably, she must be the widow of a half-brother of either the President or Mrs. Roosevelt. I was under the impression that neither President Roosevelt nor his wife had a brother or sister, half or otherwise. I have noted frequent references to each being an only child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 25, 1937 | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

...neither the agency nor its chair man to which he objected, Senator Byrd explained. For them he had nothing but praise. But the Brookings Institution had calculated that the Government could save $30,000,000 per year by consolidating its credit agencies. One item in the Institution's program was transfer of RFC's as sets to some other agency as soon as its lending activities had ceased. Since reorganization should begin to take effect by July 1938, Senator Byrd proposed an amendment extending RFC only to that date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Jesse Jones's Friends | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

...power issue is not primarily a question of liberalism or conservatism, but of discovering how to do the job best. . . . When the mature result is achieved it may be neither private power as we know it, nor public power as we know it now, but something new in government. That achievement will not come best in an atmosphere of warfare and of arbitrary coercion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER: Great Schism | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

...Professor Frickey's mimeographed "Notes and Problems", beyond a doubt one of the most readable and helpful sources in elementary statistics. They, however, are still no more than a glorified explanation of an inadequate text; and the confusion arising from the awkward necessity of having to consult two texts, neither one of which is complete, is indeed a ridiculous situation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REFORM IN STATISTICS | 1/22/1937 | See Source »

...Vines and Perry. Recuperating from grippe before the match, both were so ill that by the time reporters reached it, the locker-room looked like a clinic. Vines had a fever of 102°. Said Perry: "I'm going to be sick. . . ." Score of the match, in which neither played anything like as ably as he can, was 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 for Perry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Perry v. Vines | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

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