Word: nonetheless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these demands, ideas and implications the radio commission could not digest immediately. It adjourned for bureaucratic, secret, nonetheless conscientious, deliberation...
...Peierls, Buhler & Co. sold out to Commercial Investment Trust Corp. last week (see p. 44), Peierls, Buhler's President Herbert P. Howell resigned. A greater opportunity, toward which he had assiduously worked, waited for him. Nonetheless he retained contact with the textile factors-as chairman . of its executive committee...
...have left a fortune but none knew how he, once so impecunious he had to leave the Army, had amassed ?200,000 (convenient symbol for $1,000,000). When the will was read, the startling disclosure came. He had been a moneylender. Anonymously, it is true, but a moneylender nonetheless. As if that were not surprise enough, the will-reading ceremony brought out a twist in the Major's character, which threatened to disrupt all. A condition of the will: to his daughter Lillian Luttrell he leaves the fortune, providing she marries Samuel Levi, his associate moneylender. Should...
...truism that hands are as expressive as faces and it is true that they are a more certain means of identification. Nonetheless, because it is easy to see, a face is the more convenient link between a person and his name. So convenient indeed that it is regarded as the index, not to a person's name alone, but even to his character; faces, in fact, are almost always mistaken for persons. Hence when a proud man wishes to leave something of his pride, after death, above the humble dust; when a famed man wishes to allow his admirers...
...moment word was received that Robards had divorced her. The actual decree was delayed until long after the blissfully ignorant lovers were married. Village gossips taunted Rachel for "living in sin," and Jackson was quick to defend her honor, and his, in a series of duels. Gossip revived nonetheless every time Jackson ran for office-a frequent occurrence, for he was representative to Congress at Philadelphia (where as a Democrat he disapproved the aristocrat's salons), Senator, head of the state militia, President of the U. S. Election to this post he won chiefly by his spectacular defeat...