Word: nonetheless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Goddard was thrilled with his triumph but resolved to say little about it. If people thought him daft when he was merely designing rockets, who knew what they'd say when the things actually started to fly? When word nonetheless leaked out about the launch and inquiries poured into Clark, Goddard answered each with a pinched, "Work is in progress; there is nothing to report." When he finished each new round of research, he'd file it under a deliberately misleading title--"Formulae for Silvering Mirrors," for example--lest it fall into the wrong hands...
...exclusive Eton prep school, a collector of modern art, the darling of Virginia Woolf and her intellectually avant-garde Bloomsbury Group, the chairman of a life-insurance company, later a director of the Bank of England, married to a ballerina, John Maynard Keynes--tall, charming and self-confident--nonetheless transformed the dismal science into a revolutionary engine of social progress...
...Nonetheless, most people at Harvard responded positively, in principle, to the assertion that we bear some responsibility for seeing that clothing bearing our name is made under safe and humane conditions, and that workers are paid decently and are treated with respect. The challenge lies in determining what we and other institutions can do to influence the manufacturing process in a constructive...
...Though our gift may be just token, it is nonetheless a step in the right direction," Antwi said...
...Nonetheless, if the team settles down it ought to do quite well...