Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intellectual qualifications for entrance into the Presbyterian clergy are higher than those of many another church; 2) Presbyterians are proud of their traditionally (Scotch) sturdy individualism. Both points are illustrated in this case. Dr. Walker exhibited no Stratonian looseness; he made out a good case on a high plane. Nevertheless, Presbyterians will not all follow him sheeplike. Thus, three famed Presbyterians had already declared for Nominee Smith: Edward Stephen Harkness, Arthur Curtiss James, among the richest Presbyterians in the U. S., and Dr. Henry Van Dyke, Princeton pundit, Presbyterian divine...
This year, Tilden, suspended from amateur play for writing signed articles, attended the matches in a grey suit after he had left the vaudeville theatre where he was doing a turn. Henri Cochet was picked to win and would have been even if Tilden had been playing. Nevertheless, the tournament was a series of upsets...
...Nevertheless, last week, some changes proved of interest...
...Nevertheless, inasmuch as the pact objectively imposes certain obligations on the powers before public opinion and gives the Soviet Government a chance to put before the participants in the pact in question of the greatest importance for peace -the question of disarmament, the solution of which is the only guarantee of preventing war-the Soviet Government expresses its consent to sign the Paris pact...
Such fate was nevertheless preferable to the treatment the blacks would have suffered as convicts or prisoners-of-war in Africa. Prisoners were put to slow torture and mutilation at the hands of the captor and his wives, vicious harpies who neatly carved out eyes, skinned off lips, and with sharp nails clawed out brains-succulent delicacy for the night's banquet. Convicts were killed by their own parents. In (none too authentic) pidgin English, dusky King Holiday confided to a client whose "factories" he kept well stocked with slaves: "All captains come to river tell me you king...