Word: nonetheless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contrast to that flippant view, which nonetheless expresses the esteem of Europeans for Professor Dewey, is another statement. It was made by one who is per-haps the greatest of living Chinese savants, Dr. Fai Yuan-pei. The occasion was the birth anniversary of Confucius in 1920. Dr. Fai, acting as Rector of the National University at Peking, was presenting an honorary Ph.D. degree to John Dewey...
Informed of the event, non-Catholics were properly impressed by this example of the technical propriety with which Catholics surround the sacrament. They wondered, nonetheless, whether such a rebuke might not be even more fitting when applied to the members of some Protestant sect who, when they take communion, actually touch the chalice with their mouths; rather than to Catholics who merely stick out their tongues to receive small circles of wafer...
...director of Graham-Paige Motors Corp., the Detroit Trust Co., the First National Bank of Detroit, amusement enterprises. He is president and principal owner of the Detroit Free Press. The Free Press is the smallest of Detroit's three newspapers (the News and Times are the others). Nonetheless its daily circulation is 229,294; its Sunday 276,016. It makes Mr. Stair an important force in Detroit and its environs...
...proud too of the pioneers, less spectacular but no less hardy than their pacemakers beyond the Mississippi, who came long ago to settle in the "middle border," Sculptor Taft conceived the idea of making a statue for the village green, requiring for his work no payment. It was nonetheless necessary for Elmwood's 1200 denizens to raise $17,000 to pay for the material costs of the statue and the cost of erecting it. This they...
...Bishop Anton Bast of Copenhagen, the first foreigner ever elevated to the Episcopacy. This character, it was alleged, has misused charity funds of the church, acting in an "imprudent and unministerial" fashion. Bishop Bast had been condemned, by a civil court in Europe, to spend three months in jail; nonetheless, his friends were confident that Bishop Bast's dilemma had been brought about by civil interference rather than by his own dishonesty. There was high feeling, sharply divided, among the delegates; the trial would be held in secrecy behind guarded doors...