Word: neither
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Having Any." The reason why African development had been neither quick nor extensive was the split political personality of the Labor Party. As sincere anti-imperialists, the British Laborites wanted to give the natives more self-government and to raise native living standards; but as the responsible trustees of Britain's property, the Laborites could not risk inexperienced native mismanagement of vast enterprises. Result: Labor's slogans encouraged native nationalist demands which Labor's policy could not fully satisfy...
...anti-imperialists, the Laborites were against colonial exploitation by private enterprise. Last week Colonial Under Secretary David Rees-Williams banged his fist on a table and growled: "I'm not having any private enterprise interfering with these developments." On the other hand, the government had neither the money nor the experience to go through with its developments unless it had the help of private enterprise...
Thus last week the soldiers of Britain's youngest dominions shot it out with each other for the favors of the beautiful, fabled State of Kashmir lying between them. Neither side was willing to admit that it was war. To a U.N. commission on hand seeking for a way to peace, the Indian government explained over & over again that Kashmir had voluntarily acceded to India, that India's soldiers were there only to clear Kashmir's soil of all enemies so that her 3,000,000 independent citizens could vote peaceably on their own future...
...Money is neither an object nor an obstacle at Landhaven. Those who can afford it pay the full $1,650 a year. For others, Millen has not only written off the tuition altogether, but provided clothes, books and pocket money. But every Landhavener must pass a Stanford-Binet test with a "gifted" rating: the average I.Q. for the group entering this fall...
...Irishman-tells the story in the first person, a common practice in Cain's novels, which absolves the author from having to write in English. Cain's command of the I'm-telling-you-brother vernacular has been compared with Lardner and Hemingway, but it is neither as inventive as Lardner's nor as selective as Hemingway's. It often sounds like what it often is-something the movies picked up pure and handed back to Americans as if it had been their...