Word: neither
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japan's little Premier, Nobuyuki Abe, is a definition of inconsistency. His breakfast begins by being Japanese (bean soup, pickled eggplant, rice) and ends Occidentally (soft-boiled eggs, a glass of milk). His house (suburban, neither big nor small) is typically that of a Japanese military man, but is cluttered by a very unmilitary hobby-scores of canaries and red sparrows in pretty cages. Premier Abe drinks a little but not much, smokes a little but not much, exercises a little but not much. He is a general, but he has never been...
...second oldest daughter. Since this was not on the schedule, the matchmakers called the whole affair off, and His Imperial Majesty at length showed his distaste not only for Carol but for the entire Rumanian royal family by coining one of his very rare epigrams: "Rumania, bah! It is neither a State nor a nation, but a profession...
...headed for neutral Bergen to wait for the political nor'easter to wane. Germany, in a great show of fury, protested to Norway. Norway coolly rejected the protest, with a review of the case which made it look very much as though Germany, wanting neither to risk the North Sea crossing nor to lose face by giving the ship back to its U. S. crew, had deliberately sought internment...
...Neither her parents nor the art instructors at her progressive schools ever tried to teach Dahlov. She went her own gait, shifting happily about from crayons to lithographs, wood carving to ceramics, water colors to oils. No prodigy, she had the varying interests of a normal, healthy child; through them all kept the Zorach household overrun with animals. Her long-suffering family did not even rebel when she brought home a baby skunk, though somehow it escaped during the night...
...railroad mileage) that have gone into receivership since 1931. Driven to the wall by seven consecutive whopping deficits, its first eight months' operations this year showed a $2,709,000 net loss. Of its once lush freight business, about 50% was coal and 40% manufactured goods, and neither recovered from Depression I. With heavy fixed charges on a bonded debt of $51,198,000, the strain of depression was too much. But the straw that broke Jersey Central's back was taxes...