Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oslofjord, Though Norway's merchant marine is fourth biggest on the seas, the navy that defends it has a total personnel of 1,200, includes but four battleships. Nevertheless, Norway announced last week that the new flagship of its merchant marine, the Oslofjord, is a peace ship and inconvertible to war purposes. Due in New York in June, the new Norwegian America liner was last week getting her finishing touches at Bremen, Germany. Launched to the strains of Ja Vi Elsker Dette Landet (Yes, We Love This Country), Norway's biggest ship is a 20,000-tonner...
Taken out of its context, a statement such as the following sounds rather optimistic: "Democracies sift the opinions and beliefs of all with the end in view of determining the state program by selecting the one most nearly correct or by correlating the less variant attitudes." Nevertheless, as a survey of the different media of Fascist propaganda Mr. Porter's paper is of considerable merit...
...Nevertheless, the improbability of some events possible in theoretical physics is so great that a number somewhere be tween a googol and a googolplex would be required to express it. However, Dr. Kasner points out that no number is anywhere near infinity so long as it can actually or theoretically be written...
...motorist rides on some 200.000 miles of hard-surfaced roads, one-fifth of the earth's total. Nevertheless, last week no less than three plans for another 17,000 miles of U. S. "super highways" were under serious Congressional consideration. In fact, under the pressure of Depression II, the approaching national primaries and the old, old political appetite for pork, these plans were even getting serious consideration at the White House...
Most visitors were merely tired by this exhibition. It was overcrowded, and the same sort of thing had been done before and better by the Europeans who originated it. A few temperate and tolerably fresh efforts were, nevertheless, visible. One was an Indian Concretion (see cut) by tall, silent, Socialite George L. K. Morris, whose inspiration for this pattern of rose, purple, black, green and orange forms came from objects in the Museum of the American Indian. Thoughtful critics believe that simple designs of this character hold the most promise for abstract art in the U. S. To the artist...