Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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McKean was a poor lecturer but an unusual man. "O I declare, I sometimes think he will look me right through," wrote one girl on hearing him speak. Nevertheless, he was studious, and the houses's spacious rooms had their first taste of bookishness in the five years of his residence. Fay House saw another prophesy of things to come in the 1820's, when Sophia Dana used the Oval Room to give the neighborhood girls some schooling in subjects that the Harvard men were studying. The classes continued through several years against fearful dangers, for, as an observer remarked...
...next week, if Canada's 12,500,000 prayers are answered, Barbara Ann will wear the crown of an Olympic champion. No Canadian from Vancouver to Halifax doubted that she would, but it was comforting nevertheless to hear one neutral European judge say: "Scott shows up the others when she merely skates on one foot in a straight line." The last skater to do that was Norway's brassy Sonja Henie, who in 1936 danced off the Olympic ice into a $1,000,000 Hollywood contract...
Britons, though they never will be slaves, nevertheless face increasing dependence on the U.S. The New Statesman's Poet Laureate Sagittarius (real name: Olga Katzin) wrote last week...
While I was in college I was torn two ways about my work on the CRIMSON. While I was utterly absorbed in it I still felt that it took time which might have gone into more academic work. Nevertheless, the CRIMSON experience was educational in every sense of the word, including the vocational. My work on the CRIMSON led me directly into newspaper work and after the usual five year interruption I became a publisher of a medium size newspaper which I started along with some other people. Probably I would not have had the conceit to take this step...
...newspaper's claim to the protection of the First Amendment, Pope told a University of Michigan audience, rests on its role as a common carrier of vital information: "Nevertheless, hundreds of newspapers habitually carry this information ... in the most horribly butchered and distorted form...