Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years Samuel Finley Breese Morse never attended a National Inventors' Congress. Neither did Alexander Graham Bell, nor Thomas Alva Edison, nor Charles Proteus Steinmetz. Nevertheless hundreds of lesser inventors, any one of whom might become a Morse, a Bell or an Edison overnight, were assembled in Hollywood last week for the National Inventors' Congress. These were not the bigwigs of industrial and academic laboratories. They were the humble rank & file of U. S. idea men, indefatigable purveyors of small ingenuities, perpetual optimists who swell the total of U. S. patents to some 50,000 a year. For example...
...difficulty of securing men properly equipped for such positions should not be overlooked. The very specialization that the innovation is designed to co-ordinate makes this task more difficult. Nevertheless, there are a few whose interests and training are sufficiently broad for the purpose. The exacting requirements of the appointments are accompanied by parallel advantages. The incumbents would be enabled to accomplish work of a pioneering character. For this reason it is possible that able men from other institutions would be attracted to Cambridge by the new professorships. Since the experiment is one conceived in a liberal spirit and designed...
These facts do not indicate that college students must resign themselves to an unhealthy fatalism. There is much practical work to be done for the cause of peace. Neither do they prove that an aroused public opinion does not have its value. It is true, nevertheless, that one intelligent, hard-working, and sincere diplomat is at present of more value than a thousand signers of fragile pledges...
...thick and fast when he and Gallagher start to mix it up. Gallagher uses the demonstration method in teaching the tricks of the trade and goes to it with Johnson when he wants to show the boys how it is done. Although the Harvard team cannot compare with Oklahoma, nevertheless, Cliff still maintains that he can uphold the honor of the East and pin his brother to the mat at any appointed time. There is a good natured family match in the offing and Gallagher has waived the matter of a referee since he believes that no human eye could...
...Nevertheless Publisher Hearst was not pleased. Trouble-shooting executives were sent to Washington to squelch Publisher Marshall, to order him to keep, out of the editorial rooms and attend solely to business. He became a Hearst problem. Last week he became a deeply aggrieved Hearst has-been...