Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...article, I thought, without any moralising comment, but by merely recounting the situation, depicted a characteristic phase of our present social condition. Perhaps that condition is unpleasant to Messrs. Fries and Watson. It is to me. Nevertheless such incidents are news, and are not of the "Graphic" type when presented concisely, TIMEly...
...inflection is of small importance to the Grand Manner, which is a perfection of spirit underlying all a man's acts, private and public. Shy to a painful degree, Mr. Mellon is nevertheless noted for his courage. His integrity, of course, is beyond question. Memorable illustrations of these two qualities were the swift ejection from the Treasury in 1922 of Elmer Dover, Ohio Gangster, and Secretary MelIon's long stand-up fights on the Internal Revenue Bureau with hard-hitting Senator Couzens of Michigan...
...neither of these expedients; the student is confronted with thoroughly college methods at the beginning of his Freshman year and left largely to work out his own adjustment to them. While the gain in self reliance and educational maturity of this process is manifest, the difficulties involved are nevertheless great enough to prevent some Freshmen ever emerging from them at all, and to subject many others to a period of disheartening struggle...
...necessary to high executive positions. The point of the whole controversy seems to be that unusual mental power is one though only one of several factors of primary importance in business success. Personality and the ability to win over the confidence of others are equally essential but nevertheless the Phi Beta Kappa man has proven that he has one at least of these necessary qualifications. The Daily Princetonian
Here is a book concerned almost wholly with problems of war which nevertheless makes very absorbing reading for the laymen. Devoting but three well written chapters to the uninteresting youth of Jackson, Mr. Tate almost immediately swings his hero into action--at West Point, in the Mexican War, and finally in the Civil War which was to bring him his great fame and his death from pneumonia shortly after his great flank march at Chancellorsville...