Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business trip has kept me pretty constantly on the go during the past two months and interfered with my cover-to-cover reading. Nevertheless let me add my congratulations to the many I am sure you must have received on the new section Government Week under business & finance. At last I have something to turn to that will keep me posted about what's being done to us in Washington. Thanks, TIME...
Westernization. The King of Kings combines his knowledge of time-honored Iranian political methods with a passion for reform and an incorrigible interest in blue prints. Despiser of meddling, dictating European governments, he nevertheless admires Western habits and dress, Western technical achievements. Just as Kamal Atatürk had ordained in Turkey a few years before, Reza Shah Pahlavi ordered jail sentences for turban-wearers, forbade veils for Iranian women. Robed, turbaned mullahs were obliged to carry licenses. The Iranian habit of contracting temporary marriages, sanctioned by the Shiah sect of Mohammedanism, was so curtailed by the Shah that polygamy...
Three weeks ago Farouk held elections for a new Parliament. Undoubtedly popular with the people, Farouk nevertheless faced the fact that the fellaheen, most of whom are illiterate, had for years voted for the Wafdists, who passed out the bribes, controlled the police and election officials. In this election Farouk controlled the police and officials. Smartly, he held elections in Upper & Lower Egypt on two different days so his police and troops could concentrate in one section at a time. Nahas Pasha followers were clamped in jail, their identity cards taken up to prevent their voting. A dozen persons were...
...Sleep in Peace, the partners in a Yorkshire textile mill, Alfred Armistead, liberal Conservative, and Henry Hinch-liffe, conservative Liberal, are posed as two representative, conflicting types of Victorian capitalism. Their children are involved in the conflict that dissolves the partnership, are nevertheless drawn together in their common rebellion against their parents. Author Bentley makes this two-way conflict the most interesting part of her story, which otherwise runs so true to form it resembles the competent playing of a piece of music that everybody knows. Out of family conflicts, the War, Depression, the two families produce one unhappy intermarriage...
...will probably never be identified as it is too big to be an electron and too small to be a proton. Nevertheless, its discovery is a tremendous achievement in Physics...