Word: nonetheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senators want to keep the poll tax. But the Senate steadfastly declines, except on rarest occasions, to gag a single one of its members. This has been a characteristic of gentlemen's debating societies ever since the Roman Senate, bored with the obstructionist tactics of Cato the Younger, nonetheless allowed him to filibuster on. Last week Tom Connally explained this ancient paradox in down-to-earth terms: "Those who today may advocate the imposition of cloture . . . may tomorrow be the victims of it. ... It has been suggested that Dr. Guillotine, who invented the guillotine, was himself guillotined...
Ehrenburg is not a Communist Party member, but is nonetheless one of the Soviet Union's best-paid, most honored writers-winner of a Stalin prize, the Red Banner of Labor, and, last week, the Order of Lenin, Russia's top civilian honor. Incredibly prolific, he writes pamphlets, radio broadcasts, recently published a volume of lyric verse. His only rival in popularity is stocky Mikhail Sholokhov, 39, author of And Quiet Flows the Don (TIME, July 2, 1934) and The Don Flows Home to the Sea (TIME, Aug. 4, 1941). Pravda has been serializing his new epic They...
...brain cells to the image, i.e., an approach to thinking. But his recordings of this complex process are so confusing and difficult to interpret that "the present technique of recording brain events, by oscillographs connected with electrodes on the head, is not likely to lead very far." Nonetheless, Dr. Adrian is sure, on the basis of progress already made, that new instruments will be developed that will be able to record "brain events" in much greater detail...
Frank to concede the "deadly sins" of U.S. business as well as of labor (TIME, March 27, 1944), Author Johnston nonetheless believes that U.S. capitalism is the world's best economic system and is enormously proud of being a successful U.S. businessman. He writes that the "Alger pattern ... is unmistakably" apparent in his own life. His penniless, work-filled boyhood taught him that competition is the soul of every game, that competitive effort involves an immense cooperative effort, that communities and individuals boom together. "I plead guilty of being a Kiwanian," he declares, "sharing all the sins of extrovert...
...also the man who stopped an auction in mid-frenzy when the bidding went higher than his shrewd sense of values told him was sound. Nonetheless, he had some frantic figures to brag about...