Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unfortunately, it is just as inescapable for the students concentrating in Fine Arts, though for a different reason. Naturally, Fine Arts 1d, essential to the cookie-pusher, is useless to the serious student. Too superficial in treatment to be of service, even as a background, it is nevertheless crammed down the throat of the concentrator, who emerges equipped with a multitude of prejudices of which he spends the rest of his college career ridding himself...
...Nevertheless, we chuckle with joy at the very thought of an old-time Faculty Meeting, which the new president has promised soon. Cromwell sent the English Parliament home for a seven-year vacation, after he had tired of its chattering nonsense. President Lowell forgot about faculty meetings five years ago, when there was a lot of work waiting to be done, such as the House Plan. Now that the military rule is over, we welcome the time-honored convention with all our hearts...
...pair of Van Bret ancestors. Professor George Pierce Baker taught Playwright McFadden the dramatic tricks with which to make such melodrama, ludicrous in bald outline, almost credible. Audiences appear to enjoy Double Door more than anything they have seen so far this season an approval which is nevertheless faint praise...
...railroad president, Pennsy hired special accountants to prove that present salaries in terms of the "normal" 1913 dollar were actually lower than they were 20 years ago. President Atterbury's $103,883 wage was shown to be worth a mere $55,700 in 1913 money. Nevertheless, President Atterbury last week was moved to wire Coordinator Eastman that he had taken a cut to $60,000 Roosevelt. Gerhard Melvin Dahl, argumentative, square-jawed chairman of Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit (subway), who astonished lis squalling stockholders four months ago cutting his salary from $135,000 to $90,000, last week took another...
...Soviet Army's stratostat U.S.S.R., largest balloon ever made, was finally ready last week in Moscow for a flight to the stratosphere. A morning fog had weighted the turnip-shaped gasbag with a heavy load of moisture; a drop in temperature had caused the hydrogen to contract. Nevertheless the crew of three aeronauts and two 'chute jumpers sealed themselves in the spherical gondola for a takeoff. W^ith a dramatic flourish Air Commander Garankidze waved the ground crew to cast off. The huge bag rose groggily about 10 ft. It wobbled sideways across the airdrome...