Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lord Riddell added Strand Magazine, Country Life, a string of small provincial dailies. Almost austere in his personal habits, he never smoked or drank. His frailty, however, did not prevent him from doing prodigious amounts of work. His hands full with his own and the nation's business, he nevertheless kept an "inside story" diary of the War years, the third volume of which appeared this autumn. Intimate as this book is, many passages were omitted by Lord Riddell as "unsuitable for publication at the present time." "I work all day," he once said "because I like it better than...
...much of the current upward surge is due to the Government's truce with Business no man can say. Nevertheless, Dun & Bradstreet last week found the state of trade and sentiment so strong that they thought it foreshadowed a business revival "without parallel in modern commercial history for the abruptness of its rise and the intensity of its pursuance...
...other feature, "The Richest Girl in the World," contains Miriam Hopkins for whom we have always kept a sneaking admiration. This time she finds herself in another pleasant but ineffectual story where mistaken identity brings her suitably to the brink--but just to the brink--of emotional disaster. Nevertheless, that subtle leer in Miss Hopkins voice is still a better bid for seduction than the weapons of most of her contemporaries...
...scholastic aptitude test, and a careful scrutiny of the applicant's school record-is admittedly imperfect. Ideally, as stated before, "if a similar broad examination were to be given in every subject, the entrance system would be adjusted as nearly as possible to the methods of teaching at Harvard." Nevertheless the CRIMSON believes that all advance should not wait upon perfection. The preparatory schools, if freed from the incubus of the examinations, would be able to improve their teaching in accordance with modern developments...
...Nations are as well pleased as anyone. They exult that agreement has been reached in a major international crisis through the intervention of the Council at Geneva. This argument will doubtless be accepted in the foreign offices and will add immeasurably to the weakened prestige of that body. Nevertheless, it should be remembered that formulas and agreements in principle are as old as modern diplomacy. Throughout the nineteenth century crises of just this sort were smoothed over by just this sort of nobly ambiguous declaration. A common meeting ground for the plentipotentiaries in League headquarters is a valuable physical asset...