Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blown across the deck. Like other vessels in the inner ring, she had been swung around so that her bow faced the detonation point. But the force which had done this had finished the Sara. The only vessel in the target array with a triple-skinned hull, she had nevertheless been ripped open below the waterline. Slowly she settled, listing ever more sharply; seven hours later the 33,000-ton carrier sank...
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek last week left the heat and din of Nanking for breezeswept Kuling, the mountain resort which used to be China's prewar summer capital. There he shed his uniform for a comfortable gown and strolled about the clean-swept, maple-shaded streets. Nevertheless, the political temperature continued to rise and the Government's discomfiture increased...
Life Principle. Nevertheless, says Park, Unitarians cannot use the Creed without "a number of interlineations which render it grotesque for purposes of worship." Grotesque sample...
...chartered during the war. Last week the Chicago Sun charged that the Government had paid out in fees as much as 40 times the listed value of many ships. Ship owners claimed that the listed value was not a real value, only a book value for tax purposes." Nevertheless, the fees were enormous...
Into Chicago last week trooped a record number of furniture buyers. Some 30,000 so crowded the city's hotels that 200 buyers had to sleep on a steamer in the harbor. Nevertheless, they were up bright & early to look over new lines at the summer show of the International Home Furnishings Market, place an estimated $500,000,000 of orders for American householders...