Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...critical praise but comparatively few readers. And much of the year's most intelligent poetry suffered the usual neglect: W. H. Auden's For the Time Being, E. E. Cummings' I X I, Robert Fitzgerald's A Wreath for the Sea, Marianne Moore's Nevertheless. But 1944 also witnessed the emergence of a new popular poet of high quality. Russell Davenport's My Country, a simple, eloquent, sometimes patriotically overcharged paean to American destiny. ran up the astonishing (for poetry) printing total of 30,000 copies...
...play sometimes stutters, it is nevertheless humorous, touching and life-like at other times-thanks, in part, to some of the well-played minor characters, who are like blobs of fiery Latin color, relieving the sober grey of Fredric March's honest portrayal of Joppolo...
...date is the man's show. The almost pathetic eagerness of the girl who gets a date is apt to have a dangerous effect on the tenderer side of a susceptible male, "and Pity," warn the sages, "is akin to Love." Nevertheless, a strong man can hold his own. Flowers are undeniably a luxury. One who busy a corsage may be taken seriously. Food is no problem, for the girl who wishes to held a man may well invite him to a "home-cooked" meal. Here too, of course, there may be danger...
...efficiency of the device," he went on to say, "limits the range of action of the robot. Nevertheless, it has the great advantage of avoiding the use of machinery, and in that respect it functions like a rocket although it takes the air required for combustion from the outside...
...average Jap soldier (5 ft. 3 in., 117½lbs.), is five inches shorter, some 28 lbs. lighter than the average G.I. Nevertheless he can lift a 150-lb. weight to his back without spreading his legs; a Jap battalion can march more than 20 miles a day; special patrols have been known to cover 60 miles on foot between midnight and the next afternoon...