Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nevertheless, concluded the report: "Both union and management leaders must recognize that they are dealing with systems of human relations. The executive who thinks in narrow legalistic terms will always be baffled by the human problems. ... If the union leaders simply press for expanded economic returns without seeking to make a positive contribution to the industry, then . . . wholehearted cooperation cannot develop...
...From past experience Zinder knew that by some miracle of cookery the turkey would come out right. The cook, who abhorred pots, would beat together a pair of Shell gasoline tins and roast the big bird over "one of those vertical blow torches known as Primus stoves." Nevertheless, there would be open house Christmas Day at the Zinder's home on the Nile, and the weather promised to be typical for Egypt in December: clear, warm and cloudless...
...approached his new job, nevertheless, in a very serious mood. Gardner jots down in a notebook great phrases by such men as Edmund Burke and Lincoln. He also likes to make apothegms of his own. One of them: "The common law of England represents the sifted and garnered common sense of our race." Last week he declared: "I accepted this post because I believe it to be at the crossroads of both Eastern and Western philosophy and of capitalistic and collective economy...
...census by giving the figure on U.S. forces abroad: 550,000. Most of them, he added, were in occupation areas. There were 96,000 in the Philippines, only 19,000 in China. Russia, he thought, had many more in Manchuria. Britain's Bevin, who had no ready figures, nevertheless added his bit: Britain's total army was now under 1,000,000. About the Red Army, Molotov said nothing...
...thirteenth printing, "General Education In A Free Society" achieves first honors as the 1946 best seller of the Harvard University Press. Concluding a year beset by paper shortages and printing difficulties, the Press nevertheless published 46 volumes, ranging from the esoteric "Spina Bifida and Cranium Bifidum" and "Tables of the Hankel Functions of Order One-Third and of Their Derivatives" to the more popular "Boston After Bulfinch" and "Serge Koussevitzky...