Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called civilized and Christian Italians to serve as eunuchs in the harems of the Infidels of Northern Africa and Turkey. Following Pope Leo's comparatively recent ban upon the use of castrati in the choirs of the Catholic Church, this vile, inhuman Italian commerce in mutilated boys died. Nevertheless, the indisputable fact that Italians, for centuries, had been engaged in the abominable traffic of emasculating Italian boys, stamps Italians, according to Baron Aloisi's own formula, equally as uncivilized and barbarous as their fellow-Christians, the Ethiopians...
Naturally no thinking man sees in this bill the black boot of tyranny which is about to stamp out our time-honored liberties and carry us back to the dark ages. Nevertheless, in the present state of fear and trembling, such a measure, futile as it may be, sets a dangerous precedent which conceivably may prove the inaugural address to a regime of genuine oppression...
...gown thrown across his shoulders, his head bound in vinegar-soaked muslin, fighting arthritis, eczema and the great heat. His flesh corrupting, his blood poisoned, death was only a matter of weeks. His lead-colored features were swollen and disfigured with sores; his eyes, bloodshot arid yellow-grey, were nevertheless serene. He spoke to her gently. Awaiting her opportunity, she gave him details of an uprising in Caen. When he pushed aside his proof to note the information, she approached him, drew the knife from her pocket and "with one passionate movement she drove it home, straight downwards through...
...report disclosed the doubt that confronts legal training schools today, for he confessed his uncertainty as to the exact course to pursue. Nevertheless, he leaned strongly towards the idea of condensing College to three years and extending one's time at the Law School...
...panacea, physical therapy nevertheless asserts increasingly its claim to being as important to general medicine as are chemistry, drugs and surgery...