Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world is full of secondary masterpieces which are continually discovered by people who never saw them before. Nevertheless it appeared last week that Director Pratt had unearthed a highly unusual hoard from the old Crocker cache. Of 60 drawings which have never been seen before in the U. S., the majority on display were by expert Flemish and Dutch draftsmen of the 16th and 17th Centuries: Nicolaas Berchem, Phillips Wouwerman, Willem van Bemmel, Jakob van Ruysdael, Rembrandt, Rubens. Among the paintings which had been cleaned off and hung decently were a Madonna by Andrea del Sarto, portraits by the Elder...
...cannot gather the $3,000 necessary to equip a regular office, from putting their equipment in satchels, packs or motor trailers, so long as they confine their practice to their own States. In the cases of the Albany itinerants, none had licenses to practice anywhere. None had dental training. Nevertheless they found patients who were willing to be fitted for plates and dentures in their parlors and kitchens. Two of the four practitioners were second offenders. All were subject to fines, to prison terms...
Traveling a rocky road beset by amendments since hearings began last May, the Black-Connery Wages & Hours Bill, spurred on by Franklin Roosevelt, nevertheless leaped over barrier after barrier, seemed headed for enactment. Out of the Joint Congressional Committee chairmanned by Senator Black and the late Representative Connery, this "little NRA" jumped: 1) the Senate Education and Labor Committee. 2) passive resistance by the A. F. of L., later modified, 3) the Senate by 56 to 28, 4) Congresswoman Mary T. Norton's House Labor Committee...
...week Warner Brothers announced that Salomon would be impersonated by Muni next, but it was shortly revealed that Muni had turned down the role on the ground that U. S. citizens might object to the implication that a Jew was the master mind behind the Father of His Country. Nevertheless, Hollywood could not believe he would be reading parts if he seriously meant to retire...
...newer paint, however, was spotted, and her hull had to be daubed and cemented. Back at sea, Ranger proceeded to give Endeavour a further view of her stern, although Skipper Vanderbilt won the next two races by less embarrassing margins: 4 min. 27 sec. and 3 min. 37 sec. Nevertheless, Ranger set new America's Cup records by sailing the fastest 15-mile windward leg in 2 hr. 3 min. 55 sec. in the third race, and the fastest triangular 30 miles in 3 hr. 7 min. 49 sec. in the last...