Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shaken Hitler's plan, disrupted Hitler's timetable. Up to the moment of the mine's explosion his moves have been deliberate, with a curious quality of being at once audacious and careful. Although he screamed on schedule at the French, British and Polish Ambassadors respectively, nevertheless uncertainty, postponements, reversals, entered Germany's history: a speech at Tannenberg was reannounced, then canceled; the Nurnberg Congress of Peace was reannounced, canceled. At the other end of the Axis Benito Mussolini seemed dawdling or lethargic compared with his hyperthyroid partner in Berlin. He seemed pensive compared with...
...French might penetrate into the German concentration areas on the Rhine, this "line" is not a mere chain of forts, but a network organized in depth. A year ago the French might have crossed the Rhine; now the chances for carrying the war into Germany are not so good. Nevertheless, Gamelin is maybe game...
Claude Elkins runs a poolroom in little Anna, Ill. Like millions of other hardworking U. S. citizens, he seldom sees a horse race but plays the horses nevertheless-wiring his $2 bets directly to the tracks because there is no handbook operator* in little Anna. Every racing day for nearly two years Peewee Punter Elkins has played a Daily Double (a pair of horses picked to win the first and second races of the day's card). But he always picked the wrong combination. Instead of quitting, he continued to pore over form charts, continued to back...
...Elizabeth Reeve Cutter Morrow, widow of onetime Ambassador to Mexico and U. S. Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow, is small, dainty and a poet. Nevertheless, during the World War she organized the first U. S. women's (relief) unit to go to France. When her late husband ran for the Senate from New Jersey she stumped the State for him. When her grandson, Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., was kidnapped and murdered, she was a tower of strength to her family's morale, later stood guard over Grandson Jon Morrow Lindbergh. Last week, at 66, dainty-sturdy Mrs. Morrow...
...Japan's favorite excuses for the "China Incident" has been population pressure-so many people on such dinky islands. Nevertheless the Japanese Ministry of Public Welfare announced last week that it plans to distribute bonuses amounting to $60,000 among mothers who have more than ten children...