Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people of this country accept either preconceived conjectures of ill-informed commentators or the fulminations of minorities which still seek special and selfish privileges, we shall consider the results already achieved and look forward to greater gains on behalf of orderly progress for honest labor and honest industry." Nevertheless it seemed likely that NRA would take seriously the objections raised against it, would give its organization a thoroughgoing overhauling during the summer when Congress would no longer be in Washington to peer over the mechanics' shoulders. Reported, but denied by General Johnson as "pure fabrications" which "might as well...
...live up to the rules of the game, and if these rules do not seem sufficient, to aid in making new ones. For if men are to live in organized society, they have got to relinquish their purpose when it interferes with the well-being of their fellow-citizens. Nevertheless; even in this field as well as one's own personal life, judgment plays a vital function. A Harvard graduating class is in a more favorable position than many other young men in the country today to score heavily. Certainly there are more chances today to direct one's self...
...garden) for jobless miners at Reedsville, W.Va. There one day last week she arrived to inspect the first "Federal laboratory" and chat behind closed doors with the 50 families who compose the pioneer Homesteaders. Prevented by last-minute contract technicalities from moving into their new homes, the Homesteaders were nevertheless so grateful for their Promised Land that they appeared possessed of an almost religious fervor...
...from Mr. DeCasseres. This generation judges Mr. DeCasseres with trepidation, of course, because by his own admission the worthwhile world ended a long time ago, after the days when Herbert, Hartman, O'Malley and their school of literary and artistic soaks were swilling nightly in various New York barrooms. Nevertheless, we have read a couple of the recent essays tossed off by Mr. DeCasseres in which he qualifies as a literary man by telling how well he knew, the literary big-shots, and we jump with astonishment at the suggestion that he is in any way an apologist...
...Federal bug-fighters hoped that last month's great dust storm (TIME, May 21) would play havoc with pests as well as with crops. Nevertheless they went out to do battle with sprays, dusting, barriers, poison, traps, burning...