Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...transformer and the gramophone, the modern disc talking machine, were invented by Berliner, and that motion pictures were the invention of C. Francis Jenkins. But regardless of patent records, and medals granted by that hierarchy of learning the Franklin Institute, to Berliner and Jenkins for these great achievements, Edison nevertheless claims them, or grossly appears to claim them as his own inventions...
...British diplomatic service to many strange countries; the next in writing erudite tracts on geology and archeology; and the latest twelve in more artistic though no less studied writing. His South Wind, which the needy author sold outright for ?75, is an esoteric masterpiece of exotic beauties, which has nevertheless gained wide enough appeal to be published in a cheap popular edition...
...take advantage of them in large numbers. Already, while this stage is still incomplete, restrictions are steadily becoming more stringent. The standards are no longer those of wealth and family, and aim, rather unsurely as yet, towards other based on the mental and moral qualities of the individual, but nevertheless education in the colleges at least, is no longer for all. An aristocracy is again growing up, but one better fitted for a democratic country...
...better nor no worse condition than any professional production on the night before the opening, gave promise of several interesting characteristics. Most outstanding was the promise of more sustained acting than the Club has shown in some of its recent productions. Spectacular as is the present performance, it nevertheless builds from a solid foundation and does not depend too much upon vivid effects...
...degree only those who intended to take seriously the business of securing professional preparation for careers in educational work. The step was a radical one in view of the fact that only one state requires graduate work in preparation for teaching in secondary schools, but the Faculty felt, nevertheless, that it should act firmly in the belief that education is a profession which should require and reward serious preparation on the part of those who enter...