Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...squabble grew so hot that in May Canada's embassy in Washington asked Secretary of State Marshall for assistance in preventing any undesirable interference with Canadian companies. Nevertheless, as late as Oct. 10 bumbling U.S. Attorney General Tom Clark was considering contempt proceedings. Asked for his reaction on such a step, Secretary Marshall pointed out that the affair has aroused "considerable concern" in Canada. That was enough for Clark. Instead of contempt crackdowns, he sent top Department officials to Ottawa to confer with Canadian newsprint interests...
...what little payment actually was made by passengers was in "refuse, unwrought, broken, unstrung, and unmerchantable peag wampum." Later in the same year President Dunster informed the Court that "all the bad and unfinished wampum made by the Indians finds its way into the college treasury from ferry toll." Nevertheless, Harvard held on to the concession and its returns until 1785, when the first toll-bridge across the Charles was built and the ferry went out of business. At this point the Court forced the bridge owners to pay Harvard $666.66 (200 pounds) annually for 70 years, and when...
Most felt that although the pursuit and acquisition of knowledge are noble and desirable endeavors, to say the least, they nevertheless could be just as easily fulfilled with the exits uncluttered by locked doors. The consensus of opinion seemed to be that safety and education were not incompatible...
...generous loan funds were set up out of genuine concern for the less prosperous undergraduate. In the majority of cases, loans with an interest rate of four and one-half percent or less are granted without collateral, and the University occasionally sanctions outright gifts of money to needy men. Nevertheless, the lending program remains anchored in the past and cannot successfully aid a student population three-quarters veteran. Lehman Hall insists on treating veteran loans in the same category as those to other students when the two cases are vastly different. It makes no provision for the fact that guaranteed...
Purpose. Winant wrote Letter from Grosvenor Square to counteract "the growing disillusionment of today; which not only dims and obscures the present, but is trying to cloud the past." The past which he has called to mind, dwarfed in part by the mighty events which followed it, nevertheless seems in retrospect one of the great periods of human history: the 50 destroyers; the 90 consecutive days of the bombing of London; the time of Churchill's inspired speeches, which seem to grow more significant and moving as more light is shed on their origins; the time when it seemed...