Word: although
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson aquawomen, although hobbled by injuries and weakened by illness, still easily repulsed a feeble Boston College challenge, and swamped the Eagles 87-44 last night...
Walk into any drugstore, although best is the fancy kind, with pretensions, such as are plentiful at the southern end of Brattle Street. An invariable, perhaps immutable progression in the arrangement of the objects will emerge. From the front of the store to the back, from the esoteric to the mundane and banal, from the pretty to the unpresentable, everything unfolds in a predetermined...
...enter to the tinkling bell full of the suspect hope of rescuing yourself, your long-lost self, your deserved self, the self that has been promised by the many-tongued copy boys and girls (although you profess to be unconvinced). You are sophisticated: the meretricity of attractive bottles holding substances of pleasant colors cannot seduce...
...during the first two periods of play it looked like those rusty gates might never open. Although the New Haven squad seemed to be spending more time picking themselves off the ice than skating on it, Harvard failed to capitalize on the Eli sloppiness...
...electronic games seem to encourage simple repitition. (Although at Jordan Marsh they encourage nothing since the display models are mostly out of batteries except for one called "Einstein," which sounds, from its weary beep, to be operating at about one-tenth normal charge.) One machine obviously designed to increase a child's self-confidence, boasts simply "I am programmed to beat you." Even Etch-A-Sketch, once a marvelously cranky mechanical drawing toy, has been automated...