Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there absence of culture in the place. Three native sons have doctors' degrees from universities, but nevertheless there is a sound culture in Charlotte. One of the faculty here at Harvard maintains that Ferrisburg has even more. I disagree. If culture is that refined sense of right living which comes with the mellowness and dignity of age, then Charlotte has culture. Verb roots do not thrive on her rock ribbed earth, but something even finer does. For the faces of the people are strong and chiseled. They workship a strong god who made their rocks and yet let them live...
...Nevertheless, in spite of these simplicities, it should be understood that Kansas is neither old-fashioned nor backward. Like the Puritan of New England, he is ultra-modern in politics and some of the most ingenious laws protecting debtor from creditor emanate from the legislature at Topeka. Nor is humor entirely lacking in the sunflower state as is proven by two well known Kansans, Mr. William Allen White, and Mr. Roscoe Arbuckle...
...Nevertheless two shells were launched, and six class crews took turns in rowing upstream as far as the first bend. It is unlikely that the University crews will be able to row in shells today either...
Find Daddy. A frantic farce, about a baby that nobody wanted but everybody claimed, lasted just one week. It was perhaps the loudest performance this year and certainly the most athletic. Noise and perspiration, however, could not prevail. There was, nevertheless, one glowing line. The paternity of the housemaid's baby had just been fastened upon two married and apparently blameless males. "And to think," muttered the horrified heroine, "that both of them are Harvard...
...successful actions taken by the National Unions and by the C. I. E. in order to obtain reduced rail-road fares and visa fees were, though indirect, nevertheless essential helps to our students...