Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Professor "Doc" Davison. After a few weeks, he flunked his quartet trials, then as now the deciding factor in Glee Club membership; so he decided he would be an accompanist with the club. Woody delights in telling how Davison suggested that he "go play the drums in the band." Nevertheless, he must have made a moderately good accompanist, for when he graduated in 1924 he became conductor of the Radcliffe Choral Society and assistant conductor of the Harvard Glee Club...
Last spring, six coach-less clubbers got off to a late start, spent only three weeks on "Operation Fairways," but nevertheless managed to bag a first place in the New England intercollegiate tourney at Wachusett Country Club. Though the boys outstroked Andover, their informal arrangement brought them to defeat in a match with Exeter, when the majority of the team failed to arrive in time...
...clawed crabwise before the winds of political expediency. It left a lot of questions unanswered (example: Why was it right for the U.S. to fight Communists' efforts to enter the Greek Government when it had lately been urging Chiang Kai-shek to take Communists into the Chinese Government?). Nevertheless, the total purport of the message was clear to the world: the U.S., realizing (however dimly and belatedly) that it was engaged in a deadly struggle with Communism (see below), had begun a positive effort to organize a non-Communist world. The world, knowing well that more than Greece...
During the tournament, no wrestlers from 15 colleges earnestly tried to tear each other apart-within carefully prescribed limits. College rules forbid bending opponent's fingers, holding his nose, gouging his eyes, strangling him, or in any way causing him unnecessary pain and inconvenience. Nevertheless, the boys succeeded in getting tangled up (see cuts...
...should heed the President's appeal for aid to Greece, but not on the terms he has proposed. Instead, our vast resources should be offered to the United Nations for use as they see fit to stabilize Greece. Although all of the decisive powers reside within the Security Council, nevertheless the presence of the veto power in the Security Council, as well as the absence of the neutral influence of smaller countries not directly concerned with the situation in the eastern Mediterranean suggest that the General Assembly would be more suitable as the supervisory body. (The planned purpose...