Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tilden-Hunter final of the national singles championship held within the last few weeks on the same Forest Hills courts. This is of course partly explained by the equality of the two players, a factor which few will contend existed in the amateur championship play. But it is nevertheless significant that pro tennis is taking its place among the recognized sporting spectacles...
...last week aboard the Canadian Pacific Duchess of Atholl from his four-week visit to Canada. His mission, to alleviate British unemployment by selling British goods, chiefly coal, to loyal Canadians, had been slightly impaired by reports of a big new coal field right in Canada (TIME, Sept. 23). Nevertheless "Jim" Thomas was pleased with himself and as the Duchess of Atholl docked he said to the press: "I feel sure that the sequel will be that Canada will buy from us a large amount of what she is now importing from other countries...
...Delaware & Hudson, a railroad only 884 miles long, has been said to run from "nowhere to nowhere." This jibe does injustice to Wilkes-Barre and Montreal, but nevertheless it had point last week when D. & H.'s shaggy bearded chief, Leonor Fresnel Loree, popped out with a proposal that the D. & H. should be given practically all the railroads of New England and a long list of others, six of which are bigger and longer than the nowhere-to-nowhere...
...same four teams which lined up for signal drill on Tuesday worked together yesterday, and though no particular significance was placed on the combinations which have been improvised so far, it is nevertheless noteworthy that a large majority of last year's veterans have been placed together on the team which has been under the direction of E. T. Putnam '29, experienced pilot of last season. In the backfield are S. L. Batchelder '31, valuable auxiliary back of last year, A. W. Huguley '31, letterman and stellar defenseman, and W. R. Harper '30, two-time letterman and reckoned the best...
...fully appreciate the gravity of the present situation. Nevertheless I think it is a mistake to conclude that civil war will result from the recent clashes. . . . The Government is strong enough to prevent what the people are fearing from occurring...