Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nearly all birds have eyes on the sides of the head. Such birds, of course, can have no binocular vision. Many nevertheless possess stereoscopic vision which they get by virtue of the fact that they have two maculae ... in each eye. This gives in the one eye the two pictures from two different angles which constitutes the sine qua non for stereoscopic vision...
...merchant bought the lamp from a wholesale house (which would presumably take a profit of at least 3% for itself) for $1. he must mark it up to $1.07. The price would nevertheless be stabilized within narrow limits. So that a store's stocks might not become frozen through the operation of this provision, bona fide clearance sales, disposal of perishable goods and discontinued lines, genuine liquidation, were permitted at any prices a merchant chose...
When the U. S. Senate's Banking & Currency Committee and its Inquisitor Ferdinand Pecora resumed their researches into pre-Crash financial practices of Wall Street last week, the Press and public were apathetic. Nevertheless, the show went on. First to take the stand was Clarence Dillon, smooth, cheery, Texas-born head of the banking house of Dillon, Read & Co., whose father ran a general store in San Angelo and changed his name from Lapowski to Dillon before Clarence was born. Banker Dillon willingly told the Senators how to form investment trusts...
...Nevertheless, they flooded Mr. Herd with offers for the world's biggest line of liquors -to no avail. Suddenly Mr. Herd and his shadow turned up in Manhattan. Hopes soared. But Mr. Herd and Thomas Wilkinson saw no one except their own representatives, sailed for home the same night...
...dangerous risk even in normal times. Said he: "Statistics show that the death rate on this type was excessive on issues of the 'boom' decade carried to the anniversary of 1930. The experience includes a period of generally favorable mortality and excludes practically all the Depression. Nevertheless the mortality on persons insured for $1,000,000 or more was 169% of the normal. Clearly there was something wrong even before the Depression. . . . By 1930 more information had become available and companies were limiting 'personal' insurance to the amount which could be purchased on the ordinary life...