Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sailed from Manhattan for London, where he is slated to be one of the Arab delegates in the forthcoming Arab-Jewish conference called by the British to ''solve'' the knotty Palestine problem. Not optimistic over the conference's outcome, Mr. Antonius was nevertheless hopeful that his new book. The Arab Awakening,* published last week, would win U. S. supporters for the Arab cause in Palestine...
...more foreign pictures of all sorts than ever before. Sable Cicada, released in Manhattan last fortnight, is one of the first Chinese pictures made for foreign devils as well as for domestic showings. Likely to be shown only in a few small theatres in big cities, it is nevertheless important as a symptom of an ambassadorial trend...
Many a thoughtful U. S. physician opposes socialized medicine because, like a businessman, he dislikes the idea of government interference and fears the influence of politics. Nevertheless, in the past century every civilized government in the world has enormously increased its aid to the ill. And a strong current in favor of socialized medicine runs through recent writings of physicians on both sides of the Atlantic. Last week a Gallup poll on voluntary health insurance indicated that some 25,000,000 persons largely in the group earning over $980 a year would be willing to pay $3 a month...
...Note: Harvard's proposed marriage course, which was widely petitioned for recently, must still be termed strictly tentative. Nevertheless, Harvard can ill afford to overlook the opportunities presented by domestically inclined North Carolinians, especially when the prospectus for the Conference proclaims: "The program of this conference, as was true of those preceding, is made up of co-laborers in the field of marriage...
...regardless of his ability to juggle integrals or analyze unknowns, is worthy of a college degree unless he is able to produce a lucid, literate sentence. Nevertheless, the large numbers of theses and examinations made up of impassable jungles of words which come before the eyes of Harvard section men are witnesses to the fact that every year Harvard sends out many graduates who cannot write English...