Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dubious land deal, survived it to go to the U. S. Senate and receive as many votes as Thomas Jefferson for President, only to be kicked downstairs into the Vice-Presidency by vote of the House of Representatives. Cast out by both parties for killing Alexander Hamilton, he nevertheless had impeccably executed one of the final duties of his office, that of presiding at the impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase. And all the while, unpredictable Aaron Burr had been dickering with the British Minister at Philadelphia for funds to split off the nation's West from...
Freakish as that play seemed, it nevertheless was not U. S. Football's curiosity-of-the-week. That distinction went to a mystification at the University of California at Los Angeles which was taking on the proportions of a national sports scandal...
...admirers of Tolstoi, then, "Anna Karenina" is sadly disappointing. Admires of Garbo will feel differently. She is definitely Garbo throughout, not Anna, but nevertheless gives a convincing performance. (This is a trick common among Hollywood stars who are personalities, not necessarily actresses.) The picture as a whole, in fact, is not too unsatisfactory when considered merely as a picture, not as the translation of a novel; it is good Hollywood romance...
...excretion of uric acid and thus to remedy certain states of gout, arthritis, rheumatism, sciatica and neuralgia, doctors recently adopted a synthetic drug called cinchophen, made from quinine and carbolic acid. Soon cinchophen users complained of jaundice. Many died, and, upon autopsy, revealed extensive degeneration of the liver. Doctors nevertheless hesitated to abandon this highly useful drug...
...constantly being told to love, honor & obey the New Deal, were startled to find in their paper a full-page advertisement entitled THE RAKE'S PROGRESS, or The United States is wasting its substance in riotous extravagance. Excerpt: "WOODROW WILSON and Franklin D. Roosevelt, however admirable their qualities, nevertheless divide the distinction of standing forth as the Coal-Oil Johnnies of American politics. . . . Before the times of Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt, the United States had practically NO NATIONAL DEBT. Now we have a formidable National debt of some THIRTY THOUSAND MILLION DOLLARS, which is continually INCREASING...