Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nevertheless Davis believes that the future growth of Protestantism in Brazil lies in the vast untouched rural areas. But, says he, "the urban type of church" will fail there. In backwoods Brazil, says Davis, "people are . . . illiterate, in debt, undernourished, suffering from endemic and parasitic diseases, ignorant of the first principles of hygiene, sanitation, balanced diet, baby care. . . . Homes are bare hovels, crops are blighted by cutworms, and animals are decimated with tuberculosis. . . . When the theological seminaries of Brazil recognize this . . . by including in their curricula courses of rural economics, rural sociology, public health, diet and nutrition, youth activities, handcrafts...
Signals and Scissors. Whistling, humming, singing and talking were forbidden. Once when the Bishop tried breaking the no-talking rule, as everyone did, he got "a good wigging from the head warden." Nevertheless he managed to send out word that he would say daily Morning and Evening Prayers, invited his neighbors to join him silently at those hours. He tapped signals on the walls to announce the opening and closing of services. On Sundays and saints' days he celebrated the Holy Communion. For the Host he kept back a piece of bread from the preceding evening meal, substituted water...
After leaving from where we were before we left for here, not knowing we were coming here from there; we could not tell if we would arrive here or not. Nevertheless, we are now here...
Catch Offers. The almost empty shell of the Stevens nevertheless attracted tentative offers, most of which presented catch clauses. One offered $7,500,000 for the Stevens, but stipulated that the U.S. Government must refurnish...
Forty Years' Record. Louise Randall Pierson's autobiography covers the years from 1902, when Father died, to the present. Roughly Speaking is as uneven as the years it spans. The 332 pages of neat, small print, marred by an affected breeziness and by curiously false conversational passages, nevertheless make up a lively, candid, sometimes exasperatingly interesting book. Its record is bitter, if the facts of the family's struggle alone are considered. But Mrs. Pierson is so persistently cheerful in keeping the record that she seems optimistic by will power alone. Sometimes, like sunlight filtering through...