Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nevertheless, according to the most recent report of the Russian Information Bureau in Washington, the industrial output has increased fivefold in the last five years, while the individual output and the number of workers employed have doubled. The report reads in part...
...been said better and (c) it need never have been said at all. Such prejudices, coupled with the fact that no one has ever yet succeeded in finishing an editorial during the exodus from Soldiers Field, would seem to make all comments, including this one, unnecessary. Nevertheless even extras have editorial columns so the only proper course of action in to grit one's metaphorical teeth, grasp the Cornn firmly in hand and on a Thursday evening offer glittering generalities concerning the results of the coming Saturday's game. All of which is being very, very frank and allowing...
...take this opportunity to thank an anonymous donor for a hand some bottle of what is labeled Halg and Halg. The mere mention of my having a cold elicited this offer of what the giver assures me is an effective remedy. My cold has long since gone but nevertheless I am very grateful for the antidote. As a matter of fact the bottle is here on the table as I write and occasionally I take a sip, in order that I may establish a sort of personal relation with my generous unknown friend. Whoever you are and wherever...
...LLANPEAR PATTERN-Francis B. Biddle-Scribner's ($2). Carl Llanfear, by heredity incapable of achieving his desired escape from the flypaper pattern of the Philadelphia Llanfears, nevertheless wriggles frantically to achieve his separation from the sticky glue of convention in which his innumerable and, to a reader, indistinguishable relatives are contentedly bogged. His marriage serves only to anchor him more deeply in the sticky golden marsh; mild affairs with other women are not sufficient to release him. Finally, even this rebellious but unsturdy member of the rich and quiet tribe lies down reluctantly with the others, forced to derive...
Irrespective of the fact that the effort was probably too great for the result obtained, and that the initiative was displayed in a field outside of the general run of the college curriculum, it is nevertheless true that these men had a definite object in view and they persevered until they got it. Their display of initiative was spectacular, receiving much approbation from enthusiastic supporters of Indiana's athletics, and a corresponding amount of censure from the more level-headed ones who questioned the wisdom of sacrificing three or four days of classes for one football game. In either case...