Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spectrum of Red Book, Bine Book, Green Book. On Armistice Day 1918, William Randolph Hearst succeeded, after several years' dickering, in hiring Editor Long for his Cosmopolitan. In the eleven years that followed. Editor Long made a great success. Explaining "All I know is what I like," he nevertheless showed an uncanny eye for the weather of public preference. When the public wanted Westerns, he gave it Curwood & Kyne. When it wanted Knowledge, he gave it Will Durant. When it wanted Russians, he gave it Russians. Prodigally sowing Big Names and New Names with talent in his slick...
...Nevertheless U. S. Business responded to Chairman Kennedy's helpful hand by bursting forth with the greatest volume of financing since 1931. During the first half of 1935, total registrations amounted to $1,365,000,000, not far short of the figure for the previous 18 months. Even more impressive were the Financial Chronicle's authoritative statistics on securities actually offered to the public. Many registered issues have not yet been sold or are held for future use. Total corporate financing for the first six months footed up to $569,000,000 as against...
...flights go, it did not amount to much. Miss Ingalls could have made better time, at considerably less expense and energy, by taking one of the regular transcontinental airliners. Nevertheless it was the first East-West non-stop coast-to-coast flight by a woman. Laura Ingalls left the stage to become a flyer in the wake of the Lindbergh boom. She had been by turns a vaudeville actress, Spanish dancer, graduate nurse, amateur detective. At Curtiss Field her small, helpless appearance at first evoked laughter. Later she was told she would never make a flyer. Indomitable, she kept...
Chemist Prussin has been tinkering with fuels for 16 years. Five years ago he went to the Guggenheim School with a solid fuel that ran a test engine-but the engine stopped after a few minutes. Nevertheless the Guggenheim officials were interested, and six months ago gave him facilities for further research. Now all he needs to make Solene is a big kettle, twelve minutes, two solidifying agents which he has decided to keep secret for a while...
...households the stolen wives were usually turned loose, could enter any wigwam save that of a onetime husband. Gray-bull, a chief who gave Ethnologist Lowie much information on ancient Crow ways and legend, had been a savage Galahad in his youth. Deeply loving his wife, he had nevertheless forced her to accompany her kidnapper out of respect for Crow etiquette. "If you have ever been married, you know how I felt," the old Crow told Ethnologist Lowie. Had he resisted or taken her back, he would have been forever disgraced. When Gray-bull stole a wife in turn...