Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...containing in solution the minerals that plants must have. Dr. Gericke calls this kind of crop-growing "hydroponics" (Greek, hydro, water; ponos, labor). His tanks have yielded some remarkable results (TIME, March 1, 1937, et seq.), but there has been much argument over whether hydroponics has any commercial value. Nevertheless, several commercial growers are using the Gericke system, foreign governments have asked questions, and the National Resources Committee has spot lighted hydroponics as one of the applied sciences which may be of future importance to the national economy...
...Nevertheless, "I Like America" is not a book that can be tossed aside. The problems raised are vital. Those of us who would hesitate to set up a Communist regime must find another solution, for few will disagree with Mr. Hicks that "there is a great deal in America that no decent person can afford to like...
...Harvard-Yenching Institute. Some of these reflect a pro-Chinese attitude. In adding "Japanese Spirit in Full Bloom" to the display, I remarked in class that it was probably an unkindness to the Japanese cause, because the propaganda efforts in the pamphlet so obviously defeat their own end; nevertheless it seemed most desirable that Americans try to gain some impression of the militarist attitude exemplified in this pamphlet. All these periodicals were clearly marked "Reserved for History 83b. Do not remove...
...same legends, gradually refining them, until eventually a poet appeared who could organize them into a unified work. Zane Grey's novels, Professor Whipple said, are such primitive legends of the old West-repetitious as folk tales, filled with bloody action and two-dimensional characters, but genuine stories nevertheless...
With his first novel, Slim (TIME, Aug. 20, 1934), a story of the linemen who string high-voltage transmission lines, Author Haines, himself a lineman, made a clean jump from transmission poles to best-seller ranks and Hollywood. Though Slim seemed a little too slick for its subject, it nevertheless subordinated romance to accurate descriptions of a dramatic trade and the lusty linemen who follow it. High Tension, first published in the Saturday Evening Post, is wired for more popular tastes, reverses the proportions of romance and realism...