Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that science, complete in itself, has effectively displaced God. At such thinkers last fortnight was directed a thoroughgoing flaying by Scientist Compton's superior at the University of Chicago, President Robert Maynard Hutchins, who is also a clergyman's son. Accepting Science's true achievements, he nevertheless damned it for proffering ''green facts" and "raw empiricism'' as solutions to the world's troubles. Said young Dr. Hutchins: "We have more in formation, more means of getting more information, and more means of dis tributing information than at any time in history...
...recovery and in the hands of friendly Germans. More slop and pre-civil war wisecracks until the war ends, and the Ace of Aces returns to the yellow as yellow chalk girl. Richard Dix continues to be the worst ham actor on the screen. Nevertheless, we like him; he is consistent...
...fact that the time to make sociological hay is when, the economic sun is not shining. But four years of hard times did not soften the U. S. industrial order, which had gone its untrammeled way for generations. Given a program, given the political power to legalize it, it nevertheless took a dynamic personality to hammer the mold of "in- dustrial democracy" on to the nation's adamantine industrial life. Such a man had to possess an enormous amount of physical energy. He had to have gusto. He had to be a phrasemaker. He had to be handy with...
...Welles still is very much in the picture, as regards Cuban affairs, for he is returning to an important State Department post at Washington, and undoubtedly will have the last say in any decision concerning Cuba. Nevertheless, only a certain inelegant word describes what awaits the unfortunate [Assistant Secretary of State] Jefferson Caffery, who is to replace Mr. Welles, and that is the word 'mess...
...financing. This is a much neglected but very important sector of the Recovery program; on it devolves the responsibility for huge loans and expenditures to offset the paralysis of the private money markets. The R.F.C. may be a hangover from the wicked Hoover regime, but it has its points, nevertheless. CASTOR...