Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they desire, subject only to an annual spring check-up by the Library, are holding books longer than they have any right to them. Although it appears beyond reasonable doubt that most professors lean over backward to return books promptly for which there has been any demand, it is nevertheless true that some instructors in the University have built up tremendous aggregations of library books in their own private quarters, and that they frown on any attempt of undergraduates to wrest away these treasures...
...your plane geometry. When the calfskin is hit a good wallop, this makes quite a radius of vibration; unfortunately the sides are so close together that most of it is dissipated inside the drum, producing a low tone that doesn't carry very far. But the tone is there nevertheless, and the claim that the real boom is produced by a smaller instrument is absolutely unfounded...
...reference to the Music Halls failure to run the LaGuardia pictures for a second week is the fault of no printer, but nevertheless unfair to the Music Hall, which has an option to run M. O. T. for two weeks, only occasionally exercises...
...passport holders living within the militia-guarded walls of the spacious, 40-roomed American Embassy in Madrid have eaten few delicacies during the last 15 months, but have nevertheless enjoyed an abundance of rich milk, fresh eggs, even non-rancid olive oil-items generally missing from the present Madrid cuisine. The American newsmen, Filipinos, Puerto Ricans now residents of the once ducal palace have to thank no U. S. diplomatic or consular representative for these wholesome victuals, but Captain Frank William Cannaday, a gloomy, stubborn Virginian who fought in the Spanish-American War and prospected for gold in Venezuela before...
...great musicians were prodigies, but not all prodigies grow up to be great musicians. Nevertheless, last week the U. S. was teeming with precocious moppets of seven, eight, nine and up who were practicing or performing with more than common ability...