Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fury. The Arab Press squirmed with headlines like a parade of Arabic sea serpents: poor children were lured into schools and clinics for conversion; missionaries made use of hypnotism: French Catholics called Mohammed an impostor and vilified his faith. Two of the biggest newspapers are owned by Christians, nevertheless dared not let themselves be completely outdone in anti-Christian fury. While the Press squirmed, a committee petitioned fat King Fuad to "save Moslems from the evil intent of the missionaries'' and in particular discontinue tax exemption to missionary institutions, withdraw subsidies for mission schools. One hundred and fifty...
...during the two decades, 1910-30. The Digest formula was better adapted to a survey of public opinion than to a narration of actual events. Nevertheless, it attained some 400,000 circulation before the War. The War was its meat. It blossomed with excellent colored maps of the War zones, and painstaking reviews of War events. When it was over the Digest could justly claim that it handled the War better than any other magazine. Its circulation was well over the million mark, and in the next few years hit a 2,000,000 peak, with a year...
...swift lingers, four girl students of the University of Washington last week beat other college girls in a typewriting contest in Chicago. High school and business college girls competed. Best of all was Dorothy Dow of Cleveland's West Technical High School who did 96 words a minute. Nevertheless the University of Washington girls' performances helped their professor of education, Dr. August Dvorak, toward fortune. For Dr. Dvorak invented the arrangement of letters and symbols on the typewriter keyboards with which his students won at Chicago. The Dvorak-Dealey* Simplified Keyboard attempts 1) to make both hands...
...royal suite, reporters besiege him for a word, while Kings. Ambassadors, Prime Ministers, Premiers and publicists . . . anxiously await his arrival . . . accompanied by one of the greatest showmen in the world [Adviser Swope] . . . . He is an unobtrusive, quiet person, pleasant, but not particularly impressive, and certainly not brilliant." Nevertheless, the world so needed Statesman Moley that when his ship reached Cobh, Ireland an airplane was waiting to fly him to London. But Statesman Moley sailed on to Plymouth and there entrained for a Conference which threatened to raise again the monetary question as suddenly as it had been shelved...
...German Foreign Office correspondents were told that while Dr. Hugenberg's speech "cannot be regarded as stating the official position of the German Government," nevertheless; it "sets forth fundamental considerations which undoubtedly will figure in the coming negotiations...