Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back to help straighten out the madhouse in Washington. When I return I will stay in Washington for the winter and get on the firing line. The situation looks more & more encouraging for the Republican Party." Walter Evans Edge is one of the worst prophets in the Republican Party. Nevertheless, his words last week had a ring of truth about them. Year ago, to the question "Can Roosevelt be beaten in 1936?", the only sensible answer seemed to be an emphatic "No!" By last week many of those who year ago had answered with such conviction were tentatively replying with...
...week, is less complicated than the standard one which he hopes it will supersede. Chief feature is that it does away with eleven pounds of the lead which is used to weight all piano keys, especially those in the bass. No cure-all for music students, the Finholm action nevertheless lightens such pianistic labors as the octave tremolos and runs in display pieces. When put in wide production it may decrease the cost of piano making, may be installed in old pianos for about...
...miles across; therefore the direction of stars as observed from Earth on opposite sides of that orbit changes slightly. This change is called parallax. Even the nearer stars are so far off that their parallax is extremely small, and for remote stars it is not discernible at all. Nevertheless since the amount of apparent displacement depends on how far away the star is, parallax furnished the first dependable clue to stellar distances. Beginning in 1903, Frank Schlesinger developed such effective photographic methods of parallax measurement that now some 2,000 have been accurately determined. Elected president of the next Congress...
...practical mine the Flin Flon claims looked hopeless. They were 87 miles from the nearest railroad in the depth of Manitoba's bush. Nevertheless Jack Hammell sold the idea to a Manhattan financier without benefit of facts, figures or engineering reports. An investment of $150,000 cash did not even pay the costs of a thorough survey. Another man sank $400,000 in the Flin Flon, then he too gave up. But Jack Hammell still had the Flin Flon options...
...Abilene Hardin tangled with Hickok, then a city marshal. Although Thomas Ripley writes with frank partisanship, unearths terrible scandals in Hickok's career, unbiased readers may feel that the famed gunman nevertheless emerges as an individual of great gravity and self-control. Although Hardin's prejudices were inflamed when he heard that Yankee "Wild Bill" killed only Southerners, they got along well until Hardin once made too much noise while bowling and "Wild Bill" arrested him. Getting the drop on the marshal, Hardin cursed him as one who would shoot a boy in the back. Waiting...