Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pages indefatigable Mrs. Roosevelt has spread her talent very thin. It is not half so rich and keen a book as her cousin Alice's, published simultaneously (TIME, Nov. 6). Nevertheless, the volume and catholicity of subjects Eleanor Roosevelt touches on-from preparing stuffed eggs to the NRA-proves her once more a lady of illimitable interests. Excerpts...
...Privateering, Salt Lake Citizens were to decide whether or not to build and operate their own plant at a cost not to exceed $18,000,000. Utah Power & Light Co. is one of the few enterprises in Salt Lake City not controlled by Mormons. Nevertheless, Mormon voters turned thumbs down on the project...
Stanford, with one of the speediest backfields on the Coast, looked better than it had looked for a long time. Nevertheless Southern California, which had held its perch throughout 27 games, was 2-to-1 favorite when the teams trotted into the field at Los Angeles last week. Of the 90,000 who witnessed this Humpty's fall, probably none enjoyed it more than Stanford's oldtime football manager, Herbert Clark Hoover...
...casual stance which suggests a male forbear: U. S. Poet Robert Frost, to whom the authors acknowledge an obvious debt in their dedication. Like him, they refuse to sentimentalize their fondness for nature, insist on its hostility to humans as well as its charm. But while robust Poet Frost nevertheless finds permanent solace among his Vermont hills and pastures, in the minds of Poets Warner & Ackland the bryony and woodbine of which they are fond are entangled with feelings of transiency which wither much of their charm...
...title page of a play by Jules Renard: "All rights of publishing, reproduction, translation, adaptation and of presentation by all methods actually known or by any which might be hither-to invented reserved for all countries." This translation lacks, perhaps, the sonority and fullness of the original French; nevertheless, we feel that it gives some conception of the farsightedness of the copyright. We only hope that, in translating, publishing, and representing it we have not laid ourselves open to the ministrations of the French secret service...