Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...learned your address. When you were studying at the Vienna University two years ago you surely had occasion to get acquainted with Viennese people and to esteem them. May I therefore with regard to those, I daresay, happy and pleasing days utter a certainly very immodest request which nevertheless might be fulfilled...
...spirited, depending on one's views, "Athleticism," he says, "attracts boys and girls to college who do not want and cannot use a college education." And although there are rather few institutions which make a practice of going out and hiring a topnotch feminine field hockey aggregation, there is, nevertheless, a lot of truth in this new attack on athletic over-emphasis. Let us use two colleges as examples, both of them institutions which are not mentioned by Mr. Hutchins...
...Army and Navy underlying The Ramparts We Watch. With no military caste, U. S. officers get a more thorough training, says Major Eliot, than the officers of militaristic nations. Their power watchfully curbed by a democracy that has been afraid of militarism from the start, they nevertheless have a long tradition of loyalty to democratic government-"and they will be loyal," says Major Eliot. One of the most heartening books to appear in a season filled with disheartening ones. The Ramparts We Watch discusses war without sword rattling, remains genuinely patriotic without a hint of chauvinism...
Though three thousand miles separates us from Europe's sore spots, in contrast with England's one hundred miles, our milder degree of unpreparedness nevertheless warrants close attention. First, during the Fall, the various maneuvers of the Army revealed a scarcity of anti-aircraft equipment, of different types of mobile guns, as well as insufficient guns to protect the coast. The production, or at least distribution of new rifles to soldiers has been slow. Second, it has just been admitted by Admiral Leahy that completion of some of the ships for the Navy has been held up due to lack...
...standard of "Lives of a Bengal Lancer" but good entertainment nevertheless, Alexander Korda's new movie, "Drums," at Keith Memorial this week, shows how far excellent color and exciting surroundings will go to make up a satisfactory melodrama. There is nothing but action and suspense throughout, and Sabu the Hindu boy fits excellently into the life of a Himalayan tribe, yet the plot as a whole runs in too much of a groove to make the picture topnotch. Raymond Massey sneers well as the fanatic tribesman, and Desmond Tester is a very good cockney drummer...