Word: although
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Although facing a foe which outweighed them, the Harvard players were effective more than once in riding-off at critical moments. Considering that these men had not played together much, the team showed up well...
...King and Queen it was all new and strange. Although the corridors they marched through, the stairs they climbed, were familiar to most Romans, Their Majesties had only seen them in photographs. Right and left they peered like tourists. In the Hall of St. John, antechamber to the Sola del Tronetto (room of the "little throne"), the royal and papal procession stopped. Two bussolanti (official door openers), in scarlet damask knee breeches, flung wide the doors. There, smiling benignly through his steel rimmed spectacles, stood the Pontifex Maximus...
...turned it down must be absolutely unbalanced." So last week said John Daniel Hertz, retired Yellow Cabman. He had been offered the million by W. T. Waggoner, Texas oil & cattleman, for Reigh Count, derby winner (1928). He had turned down the offer. Reigh Count is now ready for stud although he may be raced one more season...
...discharged him after making him pay $250 in cash. Impoverished, he went to see the land, dug, discovered tin. Today he heads the Patiño Mines and Enterprises Consolidated, is one of the world's richest men, with a personal income exceeding that of the Bolivian Government. Although as Ambassador to France Patiño divides his time between Paris and his Biarritz castle, he is still the "beeg boss" to Patiñ0 Mines' employes...
...route from Glasgow to Manhattan. He should have been over the continental shelf, the underwater plateau which extends 150 miles seaward from the North American coast. He ordered a sounding lead dropped. At 100 fathoms it should have touched bottom. It touched nothing. Twice more he sounded. No bottom. Although puzzled he decided that he was on his correct course and the Shelf might be out of place. Apparently last month's earthquake (TIME, Nov. 25) had opened a new hole in the bottom...