Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...common assumption that Americans do not gesticulate is not correct. Even aside from the well-known oratorical gestures we are fairly lively. Most of our gestures may be designated as descriptive. We supplement our speech with move ments that indicate the form of what we are talking about. Nevertheless on the whole our gestures are moderate...
...more edifying but fully as enlightening as to the nature of the field. It is well to have many good research men, but that is not enough. The sprinkling of fine, stimulating teachers mark the Department as occasional oases on a desert--a desert through which a concentrator has, nevertheless, to travel...
...Nevertheless, they are un-pledged; nor is it by any means certain that the genial Kansan will be the national Republican choice next June. Borah is a definite possibility, as is Knox, and there is always that man named Hoover. Support of the President by his party, on the other hand, if casual, was at least certain, and if this is not the case at the Philadelphia convention, it will be most unusual. The obvious inference is that Massachusetts Republicans voted for Landon because he is the most in the limelight at the present moment, an uncertain reason at best...
Isolated though he is 550 miles north of the railroad terminal at Fairbanks, Dr. Greist has nevertheless been host to several prominent U. S. citizens during the last decade. In 1926 Explorers Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth, having sailed a dirigible across the North Pole, paused at Point Barrow, eleven miles north of Dr. Greist's settlement. More recently, the Lindberghs, flying to China, visited the Greists at Barrow. Last August when Flyers Wiley Post and Will Rogers crashed on a river bank 15 miles from Barrow, Dr. Greist embalmed their bodies...
...Nevertheless, the average stockholder has several objections to the twelve-month plan. Since earnings at best are merely history, the stockholder wants to know his company's latest history, which is generally the preceding quarter. To figure out quarterly earnings from a twelve-month report requires considerable arithmetic...