Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week, just as Soviet citizens were busy celebrating "AntiWar Day" (Stalin's name for the anniversary of the declaration of war by Imperial Germany in 1914 upon Imperial Russia), they were quietly informed by the Soviet official news agency Tass that the defeated Japanese forces had nevertheless "occupied Soviet territory to a depth of six miles." Next, Japanese official press wires reported that 50 Soviet bombing planes had appeared over Korea this week, bombed several villages and railways. Five planes were shot down before they could get back to Russia...
...Administered by States, Workers' Education suffers badly from decentralization, which is nevertheless what WPA officials as well as educators (fearing charges and reality of dictatorship) want to maintain...
Opposition to Roosevelt policies was proven not necessarily poison to Texas Democrats. House Judiciary Chairman Hatton Sumners, who fought the Court Plan and Reorganization, squeezed through for his 13th term. Fort Worth's Fritz Lanham, who voted against Reorganization (but was nevertheless backed by Son Elliott) defeated a "100% Roosevelt" opponent...
...seething furnace. The utmost cold, absolute zero (zero on the Kelvin scale), comes out at - 273.13° on the arbitrary Centigrade scale (zero for the freezing point of water, 100 for the boiling point). Scientists have not quite chilled matter to absolute zero, and never expect to. Nevertheless, researches in cryogenics (low tempera ture) are important to the study of entropy, which is defined as the degree of randomness or lack of organization in the energy distribution of a closed system. The third law of thermodynamics states that at absolute zero there must be no entropy. The particles have...
...July wheat. Economist Black, 42, took to farming almost before he could wield a pitchfork, taught agricultural economics at Iowa State College for four years, joined the AAA's inner council in 1935. Well-qualified to expound the ever-normal granary plan to the London delegates, Economist Black nevertheless failed to convince them...