Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rush of last-minute business, the Senate did not get around to acting on the appointees. They will serve, nevertheless, by interim appointment, until the Senate does act-some time next January...
Making allowances for interested but nevertheless neophyte summer swimmers, Brooks has arranged for two races in each event--one open to any member of the University and one closed to everyone except members of the Class of '51, currently enrolled in Brooks' swimming classes...
High vacation costs and lack of transport and resorts are plaguing our staffs in warring China. Nevertheless, Fred Gruin reports from Nanking that he has the name of a veteran missionary in Kuling, China's cool summer capital, who may be able to find a cottage for him there, and Shanghai Bureau Chief William Gray has his eye on a small hotel on an island off Wusih in Lake Tai Hu, northwest of Shanghai. "Wusih," says Gray, "is a sort of Chinese Venice, where you travel mostly by motor houseboat, a top-heavy but pleasant craft with attendants...
Movie-Mad. Nevertheless, in 1922, Hedda divorced DeWolf, who objected to her movie career and resented her equal earning power ($1,000 a week). For Hedda was there when the flickers were born. She knew Hollywood in 1915, when it was a village near Los Angeles. She knew Sam Goldwyn when his name was Goldfish, and played in several of his pictures in the Biograph studio on New Jersey's Palisades...
Retail coal dealers showed no such caution. Many of them boosted prices far more than the increases which, in fact, they had not yet received. Nevertheless, many businessmen began to feel that inflationary fears were largely unfounded...