Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perfectly well aware of the technical difficulties in playing the modern game without being organized as a team, so highly developed have become the tactics and science of the game. Nevertheless, these difficulties could be gotten over if college students really enjoyed and really wanted to play the game. Where are the young graduates who so enjoyed the game and why don't they organize teams and play it as they used to play it shortly after leaving college? Such lack of playing by those not on college teams does not speak for enjoyment of the game. Still...
Three years ago Mr. Firestone began to plan for getting a U. S. rubber supply. He sent investigators to the Philippines, but they reported adverse and unsettled political conditions. He sent them to Mexico and Central America and they reported the same. (He is nevertheless experimenting in Mexico.) He sent one to Liberia and he reported that he had never seen so perfect a place for rubber growing?good soil, good climate, comparative freedom from disease, undeveloped country, cheap land, abundant labor at rates even cheaper than in the Malay Peninsula. That is how the plan originated...
...Nevertheless, there seems to be little to chose between the offensive power of the two backfields. They are very different in type but each is strong...
...world's heart's desire, has failed to do so, charges Dickinson S. Miller in this week's New Republic, not because it lacks power, but because it is too young and afraid of itself. Well-equipped with all the raw material furnished by the scientific method, intelligence is nevertheless too cautions about thinking things to an end he says; hence there are wars, slums, crimes, stupid politics and still more stupid schemes of education...
Again and again the question arises as to the possibility of infection from books taken from public libraries. French physicians, Drs. Touchais and Moureau, have found germs of tuberculosis on the pages of books subjected to experiment after four or five months. Nevertheless, extensive studies made in this country cause physicians to believe that the chance of infection from such material is slight. Modern hygienists recommend that books used by persons suffering with severe infectious diseases be burned if of little value, and be disinfected by thorough airing and sunning and possible subjection to formaldehyde vapors if of greater value...