Word: either
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is some basis for the alarm which many of the French have evinced at the new program. During the '30's France listened reluctantly to British defence of a strong Germany against the East and paid a higher price than either Britain or the U.S. for doing so. Schuman will find little support in the French Chamber for ratification of the plan by rating the Russian danger over the German today. He must instead defend the success of the Occupation in disinfecting Germany as justification for her return to self-control...
Football can certainly do a lot for public relations--in fact, the football team in the fall and Valpey in the winter are Harvard's two biggest ambassadors. But football cannot do much for public relations unless we either win or make an excellent losing showing...
...years." He talked to Stalin at length four times. "Met face to face, Stalin is not by any means the unattractive personality that some writers have depicted . . . While not tall, he is square and erect, giving the impression of great strength . . . [His] fine dark eyes . . . did not impress me either as 'gentle,' as one observer thought, or 'cold as steel,' as others have remarked, but they are alert, expressive and intelligent ... He seems at times actually benign. There is no question but that he can be brutally abrupt...
...became the "boy wonder" president of the University of Chicago. Not long after, he invited Adler to come out and be a .professor. "I'm the president of a great university," Hutchins announced to Adler at lunch. "But I haven't thought about education." "Me either," said Mortimer. "I'm a philosopher." The only thoughts he had about education, he went on to say, had come from Columbia's John Erskine, who had taught a general course in "the great books" of Western civilization. Adler thought Hutchins should begin reading them too. "He broadly hinted," Hutchins...
...more distant future is hardly likely to see either a repetition of World War II's Pacific naval battles or such mass bombing raids as the air assaults on Germany. Great fleets on the sea or in the air will be canceled out by the guided bomb, the guided missile, the proximity fuze, he thinks...