Word: neither
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treaty of Versailles either had to be revised as time passed, or England and France . . . had to keep Germany weak by force. Neither policy was followed. Europe wavered back and forth between the two. As a result, another war has begun ... a war which may even lead to the end of our western civilization...
...same time the air chiefs met, Sir Cyril L. N. Newall and General Joseph Vuillemin. In the air the Briton is the boss, but in this War, land and air forces are integrated more closely than ever before. All the generals concentrated on a problem for which neither nation had primarily fashioned its arms: an offensive action moving away from France's great defensive bastion, the Maginot Line...
Nobody knew whether Russia was going to grab a piece of Poland, once she cracked, or join up with Germany against the Allies-or neither...
Military surgeons work by one rule of thumb: patch up and move on. At frontline dressing stations neither time nor sentiment is wasted on the hopelessly injured. A seriously wounded man has to survive the long stretcher trip through collecting station, hospital station, evacuation hospital to base hospital, some 30 or 40 miles behind the lines, before he is permitted the medical luxuries of thoroughgoing surgical care...
...Horace Kallen of New York's New School for Social Research accused some scientists of using "professional expressions" to mystify rather than to clarify, and opposed the unified language movement by declaring: "Common sense advises that a common language guarantees neither common peace nor common understanding." Difficulty in the way of a common language is that chemistry, physics, biology, astronomy and dozens of other sciences and subdivisions each need a battery of precise terms for precise communication, so that if a common language is to take the place of special technical vocabularies, it would have...