Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even though it had censored "The Sizzlers" and their gin program, WOR was taking a grave chance of losing its broadcasting license. The prudish Federal Radio Commission, which always points out that it has no powers of censorship but which nevertheless can brush an offending station off the air overnight, had just laid down the doctrine that alcohol advertisements must be kept off the air. All broadcasters were thus warned...
...kamaaina'' (oldtimer), like Hawaii's famed missionary-founded families of Alexanders, Baldwins, Castles, Cookes and Thurstons, the new Governor of the "Paradise of the Pacific'' is nevertheless no political carpetbagger or "malihini" (stranger). He went to Hawaii in 1917 as U. S. District Judge, has since been a practicing attorney. A full-sized, out-door-loving man, he was raised in Dillon, Mont. where his family had one of the State's largest cattle ranches and where he began practicing law in 1892 after leaving Washington University (St. Louis). He still goes back...
Once again TIME breaks forth with an innovation that improves an already superb newsmagazine. I refer to the 20 questions published for us in the current issue, Jan. 22. Not comparable to ''lecture notes," they nevertheless provide a fine minute test of one's ability to digest the concise news of the week...
...limit on what the farmer could do with each acre--that is, intensive cultivation through the use of fertilizer. Also nature and the weather man sometimes increase production beyond expectations even on a given number of acres. Then there were the chiselers, who, while in a minority, have nevertheless aroused the feelings of those farmers who cooperated wholeheartedly with the plan...
...first report, it is apparent that two chief problems will engage his attention in the immediate future. One is that of guaranteeing Harvard's position of leadership by drawing to Cambridge the greatest scholars in America. The other is that of so allotting the University's large but nevertheless limited endowment as to make possible the attainment of his first objective...