Word: neither
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...town. I returned to my hotel and, inasmuch as it was my birthday, ate some birthday cake. The (next morning, with my three colleagues, I boarded the Buenos Aires plane and sat there, feeling most uncomfortable, with a big, fat manila envelope full of opposition documents among my possessions. Neither the police nor the customs officials molested me, however, and when the big seaplane took off from the Parana river it was too late for anyone to do anything about...
Theme of Hate. Whatever qualms he might have had about demagoguery, Wallace responded by reading one of the bitterest speeches he has yet delivered. He ad-libbed at the start: "We condone neither German stoning nor Russian shooting"-which brought forth mild applause. Then he launched into his main theme...
Solomon reluctantly closed the Bible. "I cannot speak about my sister or our childhood days," he said. His quiet teacher's voice-he is a teacher of classical Hebrew at the school-showed neither affection nor dislike. "She is a very important person and I am a very simple man. I do not like to advertise...
...will introduce at least one revolutionary note into dramatic criticism. He'll back his opinions with cash. Do you think that Boston has more people than Baltimore . . . that Bill Terry never hit .400? If you do it will cost you money to talk to Lardner. It's neither ballast nor diaries which bulge his jerkin. They're loose-leaf ledgers tabulating his daily speculations...
...thinks that philosophy is scientific in temper, has no business preaching moral or esthetic precepts. There are only two sorts of meaningful statements, he says-those based on observable facts, and those which connect them by logic. In Ayer's philosophy, statements like "There is a God" are neither true nor false, since he regards them as unverifiable. It means nothing to say, "That man is good to support his mother." The fact is that the man supports his mother. Calling him good merely expresses an attitude towards the action...