Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small but substantial profit that marks the year's operations. Although the few thousand dollars in black ink do not make much of a showing in comparison with the lush days of 1931 and 1932, when Harvard's football team was last riding the crest of success, nevertheless even the small surplus is an encouraging climb from the several gloomy years just past...
...Nevertheless, the outwards shown of indifference for which the college is notorious betrays an in ward lack of interest in the pulse of contemporary affairs. The even tenor of Harvard ways has lulled the undergraduate to a sense of false security quite out of keeping with the spirit abroad in the world today. For it takes a tremendous force to rouse Harvard men to the core, and thrills such as the trumpet call of the Further War Veterans and the more serious mood which drew men to the Teacher's Oath hearing only show that Harvard's own toes must...
...talent stretched over 100 years seldom produces a genius. Nevertheless two living Emmets of the third generation have considerable reputations among society portraitists: Lydia Field Emmet, Ellen Emmet Rand. Of greatest interest to gallery goers was Lydia Field Emmet's boyhood portrait of her nephew, the best-known contemporary of the clan, lanky playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood (Reunion in Vienna, The Petrified Forest, Idiot's Delight...
...President was at pains to avoid implying criticism of the present state of the stockmarket, confining his speculation to possible effects on monetary stability and foreign exchange. Nevertheless, the deadly parallel between 1914 and Europe's present state was inevitably drawn. At the start of the War foreign holdings of U. S. securities were between $2,000,000,000 and $3,000,000,000. As foreign markets swiftly closed, the New York Stock Exchange became the only possible place in the world where securities could be turned into cash on a large scale...
...features of detective stories and none of their ingenuity. By no means so pompous in his professional recollections as Sir Basil Thomson, onetime chief of Scotland Yard (The Story of Scotland Yard), Melvin Horace Purvis, onetime head of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, nevertheless falls into the literary ambush that has trapped so many of his predecessors, composing an account that contains two parts of philosophizing on crime to every one part of concrete information, two descriptions of plodding toil for every one of exciting capture or escape. The result is an uneven book narrowly saved...