Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into the dairy business, picked up extra money lecturing on what he calls "metaphysics." One night in 1933, he now recalls, he woke up with an idea for an economic cureall, forthwith explained it to his wife and two daughters. They did not understand it. Minor Pierce Long nevertheless went ahead with his Ray System Corporation, Inc. As has many another fiscal dreamer, he proposed to issue patented, pink & blue Raychecks in denominations of 50? to $10, have merchants redeem them in goods or U. S. currency at face value. Redemption funds would come from consumers, who would have...
...name is Adolf Hitler; 2) Brauchitsch is the typical German Army officer, self-effacing, obedient and personally dull. Only time he ever got himself talked about was last year, when he divorced his first wife to marry young and pretty Charlotte Schmidt, daughter of a Silesian judge. Nevertheless, he possesses the thoroughness, persistence and greatness in his field that have made the Army the highest expression of German efficiency and perhaps the greatest Army in the world...
...Moore predicted the exact month in which the British General Strike would begin: May 1926. He foretold Anschluss between Germany and Austria a year in advance. Nevertheless, last month in the Sunday Dispatch Old Moore said flatly: "During August . . . there is no doubt that Mr. Chamberlain will steer the Ship...
Live canaries, which used to be carried down into coal mines as sentinels against firedamp, are not often stationed in modern chemical laboratories. Nevertheless, Dr. Harold Clayton Urey and his coworkers* at Columbia University have kept canaries within sniffing distance of their apparatus for months. Reason: the chemists were working with two deadly poisons, hydrogen cyanide (used in some U. S. States to execute condemned criminals) and sodium cyanide. If these began to leak from the apparatus, the sensitive little birds would collapse in time for the men to take action. Pacific, round-faced, gum-chewing Dr. Urey...
...post-War year the seediest remittance man in South America was judged a secret agent; the hungriest British novelist lecturing to the U. S. was thought by many to be a Foreign Office spokesman. Britain's propaganda office was not organized until long after the invasion of Belgium, nevertheless reaction gave neutrals an enduring suspicion of Britons bearing news...