Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...explanation was that it meant exactly what it said. President Teagle wants to stay what he is because he is an oil man?essentially, specifically, an oil man. If this fact suggests a grimy individual in a pair of begritted overalls, with smudged nose and lamentable fingernails, it is nevertheless a fact, for Mr. Teagle not infrequently looks like this. He would rather poke around for oil, he said, than stay in his office and handle papers. The Directors respected his wish...
...grudge against the city? His Manhattan managers say not. Nevertheless, all efforts to book him there have long been given up as useless. "He will not appear as a public entertainer before diplomats who knew him as a Premier of Poland," said some. "He hates the Administration because it opposed the League of Nations," conjectured others. Whatever the reason, managers went out to find a hall for him as near Washington as possible; tried Hyattsville, Berwyn, Laurel, Rockville; chose Hagerstown...
While acknowledging this debt to Germany, Harvard students of today cannot help being reminded of certain evils which still are found in Harvard education: evils which survive from that antiquated Harvard against which Sparks complained a century ago; evils which, though not Teutonic in genesis, have, nevertheless, a strong German flavor. For German A is the classic example of this fossil remnant of an unenlightened past...
...Nevertheless, faith healing has become so much the mode in Britain that last week the Archbishop of Canterbury appointed the Bishop of Southwark to preside over a council of six celebrated doctors and six clergymen to advise the Church "on all matters related to spiritual healing and healing missions." In this step some people thought they perceived a formal recognition of spiritual healing. Medicos, clerics, were asked for their opinions...
...realize what the latter method omits, one has only to consider what a great development and often, what a radical change takes place within a student after his Sophomore year. Very often, a student does not realize the purpose or importance of his college career before this time. Nevertheless, the hurry of American life is beginning to tell. Johns Hopkins University has already abolished Freshmen and Sophomores. Chicago University is considering confining itself to graduate activity. Thus, Dean Hawkes is in line with contemporary tendencies. But those undergraduates who are now enjoying the old-fashioned process will appreciate the immense...