Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although general grades in History 1 for the first semester reveal a class of better promise than usual, nevertheless students of exceptional ability are a greater rarity...
Realizing the monotony, the producers evidently tried to inject humour in the form of Ted Healy and his face-pushing slapstick. Nevertheless, the murder is eventually solved, the diamond recovered, and Philip finds himself in Phyllis's arms. The two interests, humor and mystery, seem to get in each others' way throughout, frequently tripping up the action. Perhaps the one redeeming feature of the whole production is Elissa Landi, whose performance is good and beauty better...
...courses of study, whether in school or college followed by some sort of tests to indicate the student's grasp of the problems set before him. Though the examinations at the end of a course or field cannot be taken as a final judgement of a man's ability, nevertheless they give an accurate indication of his possibilities for future development. If he is to grow up "not a genius, but an outstanding man in professional life", he is likely to put forth his branches early, and to show his promise by a reasonable measure of success in the competitive...
President Conant particularly urged that the State Universities share in this scholarship enlargement. "A State University," he said, "admittedly faces an entirely different situation from that confronting a privately supported university, and one must be cautious in arguing by analogy from one to the other. Nevertheless, I believe that one fundamental educational question confronts all the universities of this great democracy. A carefully administered scholarship system is an essential part of a truly democratic selective system of education...
...address in Paris than it merited, the speech was highly suggestive. Unquestionably the stand of the present Administration is wholly in opposition to any aggressive intervention in a European struggle. Increases in armaments have been purely for the maintenance of peace and armed neutrality in any future war. Nevertheless, Bullitt, as the personal representative of the President, has apparently encouraged France to hope for aid from the United States...