Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week he too celebrated an anniversary: his 25th year as glee club conductor. Woody himself went out for the club as a Harvard freshman, was firmly turned down by Conductor Davison, who told him: "With your ear, you ought to be playing drums in the band." He nevertheless wangled a job as assistant accompanist, earned an M. A. in music and a job in the music department before succeeding Davison...
Newshen Jackson reported that Mamie "entered into the regime rather slowly after viewing the situation and screening the clients' thoroughly." avoided the "more strenuous treatments." She did not let herself be coated with hot wax in the name of beauty treatment. Nevertheless, "all the strain and tension disappeared" at the end of the first week...
...Nevertheless, on his publisher's orders, Editor Gable shows up at school, where he learns a thing or two he doesn't like: that culture, broadly understood, is the only thing that makes human beings any better than animals, and that when a man hates cultured people it is usually because he secretly feels they are better than he is. Clever fellow that he is, Gable also learns that Day is a girl, and he soon persuades her he needs special instruction. "I'm afraid we'll have to work together at night," she says...
...occasion, he authorized the chief of the American military mission to help Trotsky in the formation of the new Red army on the ground that such an army could "by proper methods be taken from Bolshevik control and used against Germans, and even [against] its creators." Nevertheless, since official Washington offered scant guidance. Historian Kennan gives Francis high marks for showing as much "fidelity, persistence, courage...
...Nevertheless, a constant feeling of limitation and constraint hampers the orchestra and prevents the musical quality of their playing from attaining to the standard of their technique. Such a defect becomes particularly evident in a concert devoted to works like the "Eroica" Symphony, the G-Major Piano Concerto, and the "Egmont" Overture--works offering possibilities in interpretation and depth that are conspicuously avoided...