Word: nonetheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This direct antithesis between communism and democracy renders prospects for peace "gloomy" but the fact is nonetheless that war no more than appeasement will solve the problem which confronts us. For war would only produce an environment of devastation "in which ideas as virulent as Communism and Fascism flourish...
...equally true that Jan Masaryk, an outspoken believer in East-West cooperation, is still foreign minister, and that several other persons, neither Communists nor figure-heads, have retained influential positions. The existence of these men is hardly a cause for more than the most cautious optimism. It nonetheless prevents the "iron curtain" from drawing completely closed over Czechoslovakia...
...muddy battleground of educational philosophies, examinations play a unique mundane role. They are hard to fit into the ideals and dreams of almost anyone's pedagogical program, but they have nonetheless managed to become, from the student's point of view, the target of the year's effort at almost all of the colleges and universities in the United States...
...virtually impossible for most non-concentrators to take the course. The prerequisites require students to pass a test involving sense of pitch and rhythm, and to display pianistic ability, both in playing easy pieces and in sight-reading. Although the degree of proficiency required is small, it is nonetheless prohibitive to the beginner. Furthermore, music theory is the only field in the College from which the non-concentrating amateur is virtually excluded...
...very pleasant," said French Finance Minister René Mayer one day last week, "to cooperate with a man who has as sane ideas as Sir Stafford Cripps." Nonetheless, he was not taking all Sir Stafford's ideas. This week, despite Crippsian objections, the French devalued the franc in a way that, Cripps thought, threatened the pound...