Word: anyway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dean House were stone cold, and people in the inside rooms worked by candlelight. Not being classified "essential," the bureau could not use lights or heaters during the forbidden hours. Osborne made his assignments and told his staff to go anywhere they could find warmth for that one afternoon, anyway...
Last week, tending his coffee plants in the shade of the banana trees, the average Guatemalan peon knew little enough of these facts. True, he had not seen a blond, German-speaking finquero in years, but the finquero had lived in Guatemala City and Juanito had seldom seen him anyway. More money jingled in Juanito's pocket (his wages were recently hiked from 5? to 50? a day), but higher prices had just about canceled out the raise. He had heard that model government houses, of cement and adobe, might soon be built on his finca. But his boss...
...Grade School, where she has the third grade, Miss Lizzie found teachers and pupils waiting to place a golden crown on her head and install her on a "throne"-a school desk covered with yellow crepe paper. It was a school holiday-but the 230 kids all showed up anyway. All morning the townsfolk poured into the red schoolhouse to shake hands with Miss Lizzie, who has taught 1,294 boys & girls in her day-more than Sheldon's present population...
Then he had some horseplay anyway. A lawyer argued that the witness did not know how long a minute was, and suggested timing her. The judge pulled a turnip-sized watch from under his black robe. The witness looked glassily out the window. Almost at once she said a minute was up. The judge had timed it at eight seconds. The court took judicial notice that it was less than 15 seconds. It also noticed that workers walked faster leaving work than going...
...still in the process of rearranging our lineups for the big matches, but we won't have any trouble taking Brown anyway," predicted Donald C. Van Roosen, Varsity fencing manager-captain yesterday. "We've got the same problem as every other squad inexperience, but the team is shaping up fine...