Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nevertheless, the limitations of cafeteria, eating have become increasingly apparent. Overcrowding and hurrying are as unpleasant as gloom. Convenient, it must be admitted, the cafeterias remain. Their apparent variety of food, ingeniously set forth on placards, is less appealing and more monotonous after more familiar acquaintance, and in many cafeterias resolves itself into the pork-chop-and-French-friend-potatoes type of malnutrition. Irregular hours have proved injurious to health. And prices have gone up:one cafeteria, for instance, has increased the price of eggs by furnishing guaranteed "new-laid" eggs only on payment of 35 cents, instead...
...United States has a constitutional provision guaranteeing to its citizens the right of free speech. It is supposed to be one of the most sacred heritages of the English speaking races. It is nevertheless true that since 1917 so many limitations have been placed on this right that it is in imminent danger of ceasing to be a right and be coming a rare privilege...
...poets have been more celebrated in song and story than Hans Sachs the shoemaker Meistersinger of Nuremberg. Though his fame rests principally on a comparatively small number of his inimitably sweet songs, he was nevertheless an extraordinarily fertile poet. According to his own account he had, ten years before his death, composed 4275 Meisterlieder, 1700 tales and fables in verse, and 203 dramas, surely a stupendous production in any case...
Because personal, inspiration is almost impossible to isolate or to define it is very easy to pass it over with a sneer about "another myth", or some similar remark. Nevertheless it remains true that long after the date of the invention of gunpowder in the Occident, or the meaning of a certain Shakespearean passage, or even the scores of Harvard-Yale football games are forgotten, the graduate will still carry with him memory of some inspiring teacher with whom he has come in contact and whose influence, exerted perhaps indirectly, has been a vital factor in his life. Professor Copeland...
...theoretically bright side of things. Certainly the modern child is somewhat of an enigma: in many cases a terrifying specimen, reared in an age when old ideals are being ruthlessly shattered to make way for new. It is dangerous to generalize and especially so in referring to children: nevertheless this, the youngest generation, is betraying an alarming sophistication and ennui to the extent that parents are wondering what will be able to please their children when they have reached maturity. The child is definitely taking the form of a Problem...