Word: neither
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Neither Crew Has Trouble...
...since World War II, it was far too big and varied for quick & easy trend-spotting. Critics confined themselves largely to discussing individual works, observed in passing that the show was roughly divided between monument-type statues and the more economical table-top models, and that neither the abstract left wing nor the representational right wing succeeded in dominating the show. Prices set by the sculptors ranged from $125 for a baby bear by Muriel Kelsey to $24,000 for Spring Stirring, a compact carving in black diorite by California's Donal Hord...
...there seemed to be a considerable difference between Herberger's chain of seven small-town stores and Butler Bros., largest U.S. wholesaler of general merchandise and also operator of 170 retail stores. Neither the Herberger hustle nor the magic of the Du Pont name could get the oldtime profits out of the 62-year-old company. Instead, Butler Bros, lost $4.3 million before tax carrybacks in 1947, squeezed out a small profit last year, but dropped $287,632 in 1949's first quarter. Its stock fell fcom 15 to 7 in two years...
...drug, searched desperately for a way to save himself and his lovely companion, Pat Burlingame. They had been backed into a fearsome dusky canyon by the "doughpot," one of the most monstrous creatures on the whole planet. A white mass of nauseous protoplasm weighing several tons, the doughpot had neither intelligence nor any fixed form: it just rolled itself instinctively toward anything edible...
...many ways Ralph Waldo Emerson is the most satisfying of American writers. The fame of other great New Englanders seems to vary with literary revivals, new discoveries and new editions, but neither changes in literary fashions nor new research have reduced Emerson's stature in the slightest; he grows more impressive, in his unassuming serenity, as more is known about him. He is as eloquent as Herman Melville but without Melville's frequent posturing and bombast, as civilized as Henry James but without James's mannerisms, as imaginative as Poe but without Poe's melodrama...