Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bridges' verse, in truth, is, perhaps, a little top "highbrow" for the general public. Moreover, its prosody treats of stresses and not syllables. Nevertheless, his verse is recognized for its restraint, purity, precision and strength...
...theory of the lecture-tutorial plan but in the apparatus are there weaknesses. Granted, the machinery is as yet on trial; nevertheless without criticism by tutors themselves, lecturers, and tutees that machinery will never be adjusted to perfection. Professor Eaton is quoted as saying that the tutor should endeavor to humanize and unify the student's grasp of his field. Others have made the same remark and all have been quite correct. Unfortunately the results have been disappointing in some respects. The disappointments have been far less noticeable than the successes of the movement; but the former have been...
...come to be regarded as President Coolidge's mouthpiece on the Senate floor. President Coolidge once tried to dispel this aura from Senator Fess by saying that not even in the Senate days of William Morgan Butler of Massachusetts did the Coolidge Administration have an accredited Senate spokesman. Nevertheless, Senator Fess continued welcome at the White House and constantly was seen there. This particular morning he was, he said, going to talk with President Coolidge about railroad laws...
...Nevertheless the storms of ridicule may be braved more sanguinely because of the subject--and that is that the Yard at this season of the year is magnificent. It is always impressive; in its autumnal garb it is even more so. Last spring when one half of the Yard was in the throes of an abdominal operation the scene was still sufficiently vernal and sufficiently inspirational to warrant odes and lyrics. And now, when there is nothing more disturbing than the sight of John Harvard in the hands of his tailor the sight is worthy not of mere editorials...
Casting aside the superficial resemblance of such privacy to that of an opium den, one may wonder at it nevertheless. Smoking, among men atleast, depends for its existence upon its sociability; if it were considered proper to smoke only in absolute privacy the habit would soon disappear. Nor is the masculine smoking room usually a place of retreat from the world: it is usually one of hospitality, if not downright conviviality. To an old story, however, it will now be necessary to make an addition. The Princeton man lights first your cigarette and then his; the Yale man lights first...