Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time world events have caused me growing concern. . . . The fact is that in the world as a whole many nations are not only continuing but are enlarging their armament programs. I have used every conceivable effort to stop this trend and to work toward a decrease of armaments. Facts, nevertheless, are facts. and the United States must recognize them. Will you, therefore, be good enough to inform the subcommittee on Naval Appropriations that after the next session of Congress has met, it is possible that I may send supplementary estimates for commencing construction on a number of ships additional...
...London last week famed Economist John Maynard Keynes, often quoted as President Roosevelt's economic patron saint, drew a distinction between the public-works program of the New Deal and that which Keynes is advocating in England. Said he: "President Roosevelt's policy, which was nevertheless very useful so long as it was pressed and saved the U.S. from grave disaster, was, of course, not a parallel case. It was largely devoted to improvising a system of relief and preventing a collapse of credit and general insolvency. Plans for increased capital expenditure on housing, public utility services...
...most of the abnormal responses of the body as being solely due to specific infections agents or even to age alone. The role played by the stresses and strains of living in the initiation of various types, of acute and chronic illness is difficult of analysis, but it is nevertheless a factor in the lives of all who attempt to meet their responsibilities...
Graham Cummin's easy stroke will undoubtedly get him home ahead of almost all his opponents this year in the back-stroke. There will be a snag down at Princeton in Al Van de Weghe. Nevertheless, Graham's time trials have caused Coach Ulen to look at his stopwatch with a glum expression on his face, and then scan the pool balcony for possible Yale scouts. Dick Tregaskis is working hard daily, and Freshman Coach Peterson and Ulen are trying to persuade a little more speed out of him. Harry Southwick and Jack Kennedy are up from last year...
Playing no favorites, Poet MacNeice represents the activities of his molelike rubes and his lizard-like slickers as equally unsatisfactory. He conveys the impression, nevertheless, that Something is watching both like a cat. What that Something is his poems fail to signify-except that it is deadly to human moles and lizards. Bagpipe Music gives a crazy rehearsal of things done in town and country, raises echoes that such things will not do. For townees the echo runs...