Word: neither
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...start was pretty fair, and none tried too hard for the lead. Matthews rolled badly, and showed neither uniformity nor individual good rowing. None of the crews "sat" their boat well, but there was some very clean and precise rowing, for second crews, in the other three boats. The steering of the Holworthy and Weld coxswains was remarkably good, up the course especially, both crews leaving a perfectly straight path behind them, while the wakes of Matthews, and more particularly of Holyoke, showed by their many crooks the excitement and want of practice of the hands that held the tiller...
...this is to me a strong argument in favor of the proposed innovations in female attire. But, even supposing the fashions to remain as they are, I hold that I can support my pretensions to reading character in general fully as well as the average phrenologist; and, as neither his science nor mine satisfactorily solve the problems which may arise concerning women, I should venture to suggest that they might be profitably made the object of podological investigation...
...diversity and variety among the passengers was even greater than among the crew. For instance, I noticed a young man of prepossessing appearance who spoke English a little, and who I took to be a native of Southern Europe, but I soon found that he understood neither Italian, French, nor Spanish. "Perhaps," said I to myself," he is a German." I tried him on my limited stock of German, and found he did not know a word of it. That finished me, and I gave him up as a hopeless case. Some time afterwards it occurred to me to smoke...
...think that neither the Magenta nor the Advocate is quite the paper that an institution of the size, pretensions, and undoubted ability of Harvard ought to produce...
President, G. S. Sykes; Orator, C. M. Barnes; Poet, R. H. Young; Odist, W. J. Stringham; Chorister, S. Butler; Toast Master, T. Macauley; Committee of Arrangements, A. C. Tower, R. S. Sauzade, R. O. Harris, E. W. Warren, and J. W. Ware. The last two members are representatives of neither society...