Word: nonetheless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That little sum, nonetheless, was a fine accolade to the oldest national free tuberculosis hospital in the U. S. Jews built it in 1890 when their co-religionists emigrated in waves from their Polish villages to contract consumption in Manhattan's crowded slums. Now the hospital, supported mainly by Jews, has non-Jews on its staff and among its patients...
...tall, pale, ill-shaped scoundrel, with scrawny neck and spindly legs. His body was very hairy, and on that score, in his foppishness, he was very sensitive. Whoever mentioned a goat in his presence he butchered incontinently. His face was naturally ugly. Nonetheless he practiced grimaces before mirrors to achieve an awful, imperious scowl...
Lady Bailey, 39, landed her plane at Croydon airport, near London. She had been on-the-way from Cape Town, South Africa, since May 12. Trouble in the jungle and with stubborn British colonial officials, she said. But nonetheless Lady Bailey tossed off her helmet proudly; she had completed a round trip of 18,000 miles, something her rival, Lady Heath, had never done; furthermore, she had beaten Lady Heath in that strange shuttle race of last spring...
...Connery of Massachusetts. He is his State's only Democratic Congressman from outside the City of Boston. Since his State has to lose one seat, he felt certain that the Republican Legislature would see to it that his district would disappear in the redivision of Massachusetts. He voted, nonetheless, for his own probable extinction...
Among U. S. jazz band leaders, Conductor Abraham Lyman is esteemed as able, cunning, shrewd. Nonetheless "Conductor Abie" was chaffed at when he recently announced that he would "buck and bust" the absolute embargo which the British Ministry of Labor has maintained since 1925 against professional U. S. jazz-folk...