Word: nevertheless
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Webster's New International permits "papist" as the shortest synonym for Roman Catholic. Nevertheless, the word has so often been used in bitterness that TIME will no longer use it, except when quoting persons who say "papist...
...Nevertheless, the President was unquestionably thinking about a most important unsolved issue?reparations?which Coolidge-chosen though unofficial experts were even then pondering in Paris (see p. 23). As a G. O. P. formula, the President has repeated that reparations is not a U. S. problem, but never has he denied his country's large interest in finding a solution...
...Secrets (Clode, $2) is a purely scientific invention, and yet the most improbable people seem to have stolen it?quaint rustics, fake priest, German spy, vamp. The Diamond Murders (Dodd, Mead, $2) reeks with dope and gore for the sake of the Maharanee of Dahlcurrie's necklace; is nevertheless pleasantly credible...
...small-town brewer in East Prussia, Sudermann left school at the age of 14, was apprenticed to a chemist, turned up nevertheless at Immanuel Kant's university in Konigsberg. Sometime journalist in Berlin, he finally devoted himself exclusively to writing novels, and plays, provocative in their sociological significance - Die Ehre, Es lebe das Leben. He died last November, aged...
Although the opponents of mass education have plenty of sound criticism, which should aid greatly in correcting a system which due to its comparative novelty has many apparent defects, nevertheless many overlook the crux of the problem. If the main weakness in the system lies in a popular misconception of the value of a college education and even further academic work for a doctorate, it will indeed be difficult to change the ideas of approximately one hundred and twenty million people. The solution must as a result be found by the colleges and carried out by a more intelligent method...