Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make pleasant if somewhat disappointing reading. From the mass of anecdote that has accumulated about the figure of the famed 16th Century Gascon, Lecturer France has gleaned the few bits that seem authentic and pieced them into the patchwork of Rabelais' vagabond life. Scholar and classicist, Francois Rabelais nevertheless defied Hippocrates, the Church and prevailing custom, to the extent of publicly dissecting a man who had been hanged. But the fascination of science waned. He divided his time between the hospital and the printing press. "At the Sign of the Griffin" he published various Latin documents two of which...
...Bendix Drive, now used on more than 30,000.000 automobiles, developer, also, of the Bendix Four Wheel Brake. Tallish, well-built, with brown hair and a boyish complexion that shows no signs of his having been in existence for almost haF a century (born 1881), Mr. Bendix is nevertheless alarmed concerning embonpoint. Lately he acquired an elastic belt to pre vent undue Bendix expansion. An incident in the Bendix rise to fame and financial potency was his part-purchase of the Potter Palmer castle-mansion (TIME, Nov. 19) and other Lake Shore Drive parcels. But Vincent Bendix him self...
Although Professor Karpovich himself admits that he is slightly prejudiced against the present regime in Russia, nevertheless any summary of the eleven years of experimentation which has caused so much comment should do a great deal to clarify a highly involved and perplexing innovation. For after all, whether one sympathizes, with or violently opposes Bolshevism, and in a larger sense Communism, the field is not one that can be ignored by anyone interested in social experimentation...
...sound opinion and excellently shaded acting; the dialogue and general tempo are brisk. But then unfortunately there comes a slump. The last act is a great disappointment. Not that one necessarily expects any noteworthy conclusion to be drawn from the good-natured prattling which has taken place: one does nevertheless feel considerably let down when the final act rolls to a flat and disappointing conclusion...
...been Rhodes Scholars. It must be admitted that in Track the Scholars (Colonial as well as American) take a larger share and last year a motion was introduced to limit this. It might also be added that in intramural sports the aliens often occupy a good deal of space. Nevertheless, there is so much talk about the invasion of Oxford by Americans and this is so frequently blamed on the Rhodes Trust, that I hope that you will pardon me for seeking to correct any possible misapprehensions. I may add that while in the abstract. Oxford sometimes discusses the same...