Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...explanation of the policy that led to their slaughtering; addressing restive, hard-boiled New York publishers at their Book Fair, he delivers a long baccalaureate sermon on the history and joy of literature. Too highly political to serve as a model for Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, there is nevertheless a touch of Mr. Smith about Mr. Wallace; in fact, says Mr. Krock, "He is one of those men whom reporters can induce to talk when they shouldn't about things they shouldn't discuss...
Less publicized than Chicago's Bill De Correvont (now at Northwestern) whose football exploits were headlined from coast to coast when he wound up his career at Austin High with a total of 210 points in 1937, Tom Harmon nevertheless was not unnoticed by U. S. college football scouts. In his senior year he received offers from 16 colleges. But he chose Michigan because his high-school coach, Doug Kerr, was an old Wolverine...
Declaring that "many turn their gaze with renewed hope to the Church, the rock of truth and of charity," Pius XII nevertheless took note that, to many, the precepts of the Church are "an object of suspicion, as if they shook the foundations of civil authority or usurped its rights." This the Pope denied. But he forthrightly marked off the Church's stand when he said: "So many noble minds separated from us ... are recognizing in the Catholic Church principles of belief and life that have stood the test of two thousand years . . . [the Church] is generous...
Members of Prien's crew seemed to be suppressing amusement as he continued what sounded like a set recitation: "The British ships could not be seen distinctly, but one could determine the location by dimmed lanterns at the anchoring buoys. Repulse was partly covered by Royal Oak. Nevertheless her two forward turrets protruded. So I first aimed in their direction, then sent a second torpedo into the very heart of Royal Oak, then another, and another. I saw distinctly how water first spurted high before Repulse and then was followed by high red flames...
...Even the most absolute dictator is susceptible to the influence of his surroundings. Nevertheless Herr Hitler's decisions, his calculations and his opportunism were his own. As Field Marshal Göring once said to me, 'When a decision has to be taken, none of us counts more than the stones on which we are standing. It is the Führer alone who decides.' If anything did count, it was the opinion of his mili tary advisers...