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Word: neither (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wants the Brannan Plan for Agriculture, and who will get the benefit, if & when we get it? In neither case is it the American farmer. It is those groups who would feed themselves on the taxpayers' money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 21, 1949 | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...progressive education which has stemmed from the inspiration of [John Dewey's] experiments at Chicago has produced a generation of sloppy-minded youngsters who can neither read nor write. His take-what-you-like educational system, with its repudiation of the discipline that comes with difficult study, has turned loose a citizenry that is an easy prey for demagogues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 21, 1949 | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Bush visualizes nests of robot weapons guarding strategic centers. Ramjet missiles would be loosed against the highest-flying, swiftest planes, which "could neither see them nor dodge them; they come too fast." The missiles carry proximity fuzes which, during the war, "multiplied the effectiveness of large antiaircraft batteries by five or ten." The fuze, which commands the scientist's awe as "a devilish device," may yet, he thinks, "bring a feeling of relative security to the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Can Civilization Survive? | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...original phrase (a gangster has "a face like a shaved wax doll"), or an insight into rural character. But except for Tomorrow, an effective account of how the family loyalties of a poor-white clan can tangle the job of justice, the stories fall between two stools: they are neither ingenious enough to be good detective yarns nor deep and free enough to be good Faulkner Detective-story fans will be horrified to find crucial clues spelled out in italics; Faulkner fans will find the stories encumbered with too many whodunit conventions to be convincing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yoknapatawpha Sherlock | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...Moses '53, of Thayer Hall, was reported long overdue early this morning on his private plane flight from Bridgeport, Conn. to Boston. All night searching parties in both Sunapee N.H., and Buzzards Bay, Mass., were hunting for planes which had reportedly crashed in each area, but at 3 a.m. neither place reported any success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman's Plane Overdue; Search Parties Scour N.E. | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

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