Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...notes down everything he says. Rare is the Kagawa day that does not begin with prayers long before dawn, continue 18 or 20 hours. He speaks nearly every night, fills auditoriums with paying listeners. Never in good health, he contracted tuberculosis several years ago. Forced to rest, he nevertheless dictated three books. His partial blindness comes from trachoma contracted in the slums. One eye is gone. To read he must use a powerful magnifying glass. Eleven years ago Kagawa founded the Friends of Jesus, an order resembling the Franciscans which now has 1,300 members. In 1929 he started...
...that "the University had satisfied all its financial wants." With an average price for accommodations set up to the figure that had existed prior to the establishment of the House Plan, if could no longer be said that the introduction of the Houses had increased the cost of rooms. Nevertheless the room rent problem persists, chiefly as mentioned in question form at the beginning of this section...
...advisors, inquiring Freshmen are rarely if ever told that they may concentrate in History, English, or whatever other subject they desire and still enter Medical school as easily and as well prepared as the man who has left his den a Mallinckrodt only once or twice in four years. Nevertheless, it is quite possible so to plan a course that the minimum pre-Medical requirements may be got out of the way expeditiously, leaving sufficient time for the necessary courses in a non-scientific field. This scheme, if it is to be utilized at all, must be planned out from...
...Grau San Martin went stiffly to dicker with them for support, he first decreed the dissolution of all political parties, then refused to give them any hand in the Government. They gave as the first condition of their support that he resign. Scoring their "impertinence," President Grau San Martin nevertheless had good grounds for fearing last week that he was about to pass on into History. While a coalition of his opponents mulled over an ultimatum to serve on him, President Grau San Martin philosophically announced: "The person who occupies the government is unimportant; the fulfillment of the revolutionary program...
...thumbnail sketches" of NRA, AAA, PWA, CCC. FCOT, FERA, TVA, RFC, FFCA, HOLC, with a map of Washington showing their locations. NRA. A code for teachers was submitted to NRA last month by the American Federation of Teachers. It was rejected on the ground that teachers are government employes. Nevertheless Commissioner Zook cautiously announced that the Office of Education is studying the "implications" of a code, with some recommendations to NRA in view. Meanwhile pedagogs were ostentatiously anxious to help NRA by expounding it in the classrooms. The National Education Association, which works hand-in-glove with the Office...