Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which says in effect: "If you invest your money abroad and a revolution comes along, take your loss like a sport and don't bellyache about it"; or the answer to the fourth: "France recognizes debts but does not pay them, while Russia doesn't recognize debts but seeks, nevertheless, to see if they cannot be arranged...
...Heart, has produced only spasmodically and with ill success of recent years. His present contribution is gruesomely numbered with the growing list of entertainments at which first night audiences have this season tittered. It tells of a business woman who grew very rich and remained nevertheless faithful to her inefficient husband...
Although several of the larger groups lost rooms because of failure to list sufficient choices which remained after the first dormitories had been assigned, nevertheless no applications were thrown out because of irregularity in form. There were two cases of duplication of fictitious name. "The Sextet from Lucia" which applied originally as a group of six won its rooms in Thayer, while the group of six with the same name which applied in its outside envelope as part of a group of 18 was unsuccessful. The group of two which applied as "O, Henry" was awarded its selected room...
...glancing back at the lines he has written, your reviewer feels that his praise, while not stinted, is nevertheless just and to the point. If the courtesy of the Advocate had not forestalled him from purchasing his copy at the newsstand, he had readily parted with thirty-five cents for so entertaining an hour. There is in the current number surprisingly little that is adolescent, little that does not bear the stamp of mature literary discretion. In your reviewer's humble opinion, the rejuvenation of the College's oldest paper has resulted in a charm, a distinction, and an engaging...
...firemen are used to large heroisms. They climb precipitous buildings like human flies and plow through gallons of smoke, happy if they can manage to stifle therein. So it probably was a poignant sorrow to find embowered in the snowy branches only a tabby with three kittens. Nevertheless, their savior, with statesmanlike good humor handed them gently down. While, for compensation, the Herald manifled the deed by use of simple mathematics. It lauded the firemen for a single-handed rescue of thirty-six lives...