Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...school or employer too fatigued for his own good, the Alumni fielded a relay team of eight men, each of whom swam a Tollicking one-lap race. Several divers and a breast stroker seem to have found their way into the line-up. Ulen's boys won the event, nevertheless, and in record time. but of course no record is valid under such bizarre conditions of competition...
...That the goal of [British Foreign Secretary Viscount] Halifax and his helper, the British Warsaw Ambassador [Sir Howard] Kennard, consisted of keeping the Poles from entering into serious negotiations with Germans is fully and completely confirmed by the English Blue Book. It appears scarcely believable, but it is nevertheless true...
...demand, all are big favorites in certain sections of the country. Yet, they all vary in style and size. Some have novelty features that catch on, and others have music "fascinate," still others have simplicity that sells, and there are those whose showmanship is "the magnetic power;" nevertheless they are all box office attractions. Sometimes we wonder if really preparing music in the pure sense is worth the trouble because in many places our audiences seem to turn a deaf ear to music and only see what happens in front of or around the music. On the other hand...
...House of Commons many an unorthodox thought on Palestine, taxes, President Roosevelt and India, bet Laborite M. P. Richard Stokes ?5 ($20) that London would not be bombed during the War's first six months. Owner of big, money-making Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd., Colonel Wedgwood has nevertheless recently howled about Britain's "ferocious income tax." As retrenchment he plans to move out of his sumptuous home and live in a trailer at Barlas-ton, near his constituency...
...inflicts on men a total risk, the abandonment of all the gentle things of life. Men support, needless to say, the heaviest and most terrible part of the sacrifice. Nevertheless, I cannot keep myself from pitying the women who want to be brave, but who do not know how, and who must invent, each one for herself, a personal heroism...