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Word: neither (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Your story on the Hiss trial wrapped the whole subject up for me, after weeks of frustrated wondering what it was all about. . . . Can you tell me why my newspapers quoted so sparely from those summation speeches? I could make neither head nor tail of the trial from their accounts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 8, 1949 | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

Zaim's model seems to be neither Mussolini nor Franco, but Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the maker of modern Turkey. Damascus, until recently one of the most orthodox Moslem capitals in the Middle East, is yielding fast to modern influences. Zaim helped show the way by taking his wife to a cocktail party-a step almost unheard of in Syria. The Moslem veil for women is gradually disappearing and the men's traditional tarbush (red fez) has been going out of style ever since Zaim began appearing at official ceremonies without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Softhearted Zaim | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...companies and individuals who rode the gravy trains of easy prosperity will be reduced to walking the rails again." But there are plenty of opportunities; 27 million Americans still have no kitchen sinks, 18 million have no washing machines, 25 million lack vacuum cleaners, 40 million have neither bathtub nor shower. The job of supplying such needs could keep business hopping for generations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Jabber Jitters | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

Having spent the war years in France, the sisters arrive in New England with their hearts set on founding a children's hospital. The fact that they have neither land nor money-and not even the wholehearted support of the bishop of the diocese-is no particular worry to them. The motto of the Order of Holy Endeavor, to which they belong, is Oramus et Laboramus (We pray and work). Sisters Margaret and Scholastica do more than that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 1, 1949 | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

Prerogative. In Birmingham, England, Judge Richard Hill Norris, denying a divorce to a truck driver's wife, ruled that it was neither cruel nor uncommon for a man to strike his wife on the street on Saturday night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 25, 1949 | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

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