Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tale long since repudiated by Ruby Bates, the other alleged victim of the attack. When the State rested it was after 5 p. m. The courtroom was fetid. The defense had no witnesses on hand except Defendant Patterson, whom it did not want to call at that time. Nevertheless, Judge Callahan peremptorily ordered that the trial continue, that Patterson take the stand...
...pride of race" no longer submits to the "inferiority" branded upon Japan by the 5-5-3 naval ratio. Therefore Japan, like race-proud Germany, will hereafter build what war boats she pleases. If steel is to be piled onto the oceans until it is time for blood, Japan nevertheless maintains that in any such naval race everyone else will be as much to blame as Japan...
...approved by the industry's trade body. Dealers were rewarded for each jallopy junked. Difficulty was to prove that a car really had been junked. The rules provided that radiators be crushed, carburetors smashed, engine block cracked, transmission ruined, grease plug driven into the rear housing, etc. Nevertheless, chiseling was rampant, since a wreck was worth only $3 as junk while a reasonably complete car brought $12. Moreover, junk dealers often managed to salvage something which could be sold in competition with new factory parts...
...nevertheless, rates a chapter by itself. "Everywhere under the seemingly placid surface of business," observes Mrs. MacGibbon, "there is the undercurrent of sex, upsetting, repelling, attracting individuals whose lives would never have crossed but for the accident of close-range employment. But the day's work must be done, and the money earned to pay dividends as well as to keep beauty on the payrolls...
...nation should cmbark on a great imperialistic adventure was remarkable. That Italy, laboring under the stress of badly disarranged conditions within and effective financial sanctions without, has-managed to live on its nerves for such a long time, is even more remarkable. However astonishing, the course of events is, nevertheless, explicable, first by political necessity and later by that phenomenon known as war fever. But now that the little fat that Italy had is gone, and now that there can be no buoying military success, the largely unseen currents of public opinion may soon well up, suddenly and dramatically...