Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stepchild's Father. No shrinking violet by nature, "Nate" Twining had nevertheless long been one of the comparative unknowns of the air wars until he turned up in the B-29 spotlight. With some reason, he and the men of his old Fifteenth, overshadowed in the news by the Britain-based Eighth (now on the way to the Pacific), had called themselves "The Forgotten Air Force...
...summary inspection of the campus sent him into the marts of the Hub City in quest of a blue serge suit, a pair of harlequin glasses and a green cloth book-bag. . . . He knew enough not to call President Conant "Rheinhardt". . . . Nevertheless, it was impossible for him to find anyone whom he could call a friend. The one attempt he had made at approaching the man across the hall had been coldly, yet courtesouly, rebuffed with a short "Have we been introduced?" . . . The youth began to despair of ever making the slightest dent in campus affairs or being elected...
...Royal Commission investigated the specific question of marrying one's deceased wife's sister. The unanimous conclusion: such marriages "take place when a concurrence of circumstances gives rise to mutual attachment," therefore would not become more frequent if permitted by law. Nevertheless, the Table remained unchanged...
...oats, grain sorghums) will be the smallest since 1941. The corn crop, feedbin for the livestock industry, was estimated at not quite 2.7 billion bushels-543 million bushels less than a year ago. For dairy farmers this may be made up, in part, by a near-record hay crop. Nevertheless, farmers look for a shortage of feed for their 715 million animals, fear next year's meat supply will be even less than...
...talking about dollar value for goods and services, his blurb was sound. But if he was talking about quality (e.g., of men's shirts, clothing), he was talking through his hat: 1944 would go down in history as a pinch year, no matter how much money civilians spent. Nevertheless, in 1944 U.S. industry had performed prodigies...