Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made through Signet's alumni association. The weekly meetings Friday evening have grown into daily luncheons and Sunday suppers. Guests may be brought at any time, including undergraduates from Harvard. In concession to the spirit of the Old Signet, ladies are permitted only Sunday evenings and Friday at tea; nevertheless, disturbing signs of conviviality are creeping in, and the Society is even beginning to sponsor dances...
...Nevertheless, in spite of its functional defects, Signet serves a unique and invaluable purpose in being the only intellectual social society at Harvard. The College has a reputation based upon its outstanding academic record, yet there is almost no official recognition of individual academic achievements. The University supports a club for varsity athletes, and the other clubs
Perhaps it is true that the excellent teacher must have an inborn dramatic flair; nevertheless training in teaching would help even the reticent to improve their ability to impart knowledge. At present, teaching fellowships give the future instructor valuable experience. Making them available to more graduate students by shortening them from four to two years would be one valuable step in helping doctoral candidates develop teaching ability...
...disarmament adviser, ten-year Pennsylvania Resident Stassen (he was president of the University of Pennsylvania from 1948 to 1952) returned home, ignored taunts of "carpetbagger," solicited endorsement as the party's candidate for governor. He was rebuffed by the unanimous decision of 67 Republican county chairmen. Nevertheless, he filed. Then he set out like underdog to sniff out anti-organization Republican little wheels, to capitalize on his name and fame by charming the ladies' clubs and the luncheon circuit. Touring solemnly from town to town in his green Edsel sedan, Stassen, 51, made it evident that...
...Nevertheless, the Census Bureau has already made changes that raise a doubt about this continuity. Many an economist has estimated that the current recession is worse than 1949-50 or 1953-54 because the unemployed percentages appear bigger. But the figures are not completely comparable, because both the definition and the sample have changed. Until last year, the census takers counted all workers laid off for 30 days or less as employed. Last year the rules were changed to count such workers as unemployed. In this fashion, the statisticians arbitrarily added another 250,000 to the unemployment totals. While...