Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...started, technically, at the bottom, after quitting Williams College in his sophomore year to get married (for the first of three times). His father was at the top. Nevertheless, it was ability, not nepotism, that got George Hill the presidency after his father died...
...James Russell Lowell, Harvard 1838, son of another half-brother of "Rebel" John, and today the best known of the family. He was nevertheless its "problem child" because he married outside the Brahmin caste and had Abolitionist leanings. Author Greenslet is lukewarm about J.R.L.'s writings: "The truth is that, for all the ten volumes of his Collected Works, [he] never wrote a book. He only put newspaper and magazine contributions, poems, speeches and lectures together...
...domestic airlines are carrying more passengers in more planes than they ever have before. But the Civil Aeronautics Board reported last week that they are losing money, nevertheless...
Burma was probably worse off than any country in southeast Asia. Rice, the main staple of Burmese diet, was scarce, chiefly owing to a shortage of draft animals and agricultural implements (in the rice paddies, many a Burmese farmer pulled his own makeshift plow). Nevertheless, the Government insisted on sending large amounts of Burmese rice to India. Farmers had no incentive to sow more, because the ceiling prices at which they can sell their rice were kept low by Government order, while the prices of consumer goods skyrocketed ($8 for a cheap cotton shirt). The promised $120 million British loan...
Architectural gem or paste, St. Pat's was nevertheless one of the city's landmarks, on one of the most highly valued sites in Manhattan. The rock beneath it had cost only $1,600 in 1810. Now, in the bustling shadow of Rockefeller Center, the two-acre lot is valued at more than...