Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Vienna: "Your news service is objective for our needs, though too short, as we are starved for the truth...
...Earnest Albert Hooton believes that human behavior, though it may be influenced by environment, has a fundamental basis in organic constitution, that is, in hereditary endowment. An affable and brilliant scientist who heads Harvard's world-famed Department of Anthropology, Dr. Hooton points out that a chimpanzee and a man behave differently not because their environments are different but because they are born with different anatomical equipment...
...reason for Composer Ives's long obscurity is his horror of publicity. Though he has lived and worked in the midst of Manhattan's hubbub, he has never taken any part in the city's musical life. He never goes to concerts, abhors evening dress, is mortally terrified of being photographed. He never reads daily newspapers, and no journalist has ever succeeded in interviewing...
When Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest was revived on Broadway fortnight ago, New York Times Critic Brooks Atkinson reviewed it as though it were a new play, wound up by suggesting that Wilde showed promise. So many readers have telephoned in to correct Atkinson's "mistake" that the Times editorially made clear that he was spoofing...
...Donahue '41, sensation of last year's Freshman team, who reputedly won eight events in a meet during his preparatory school career, will attempt to score a double in the hurdles and dash. Though up against strong competition, observers think that Don may chase Alan Tolmich across the finish line for a second place ahead of all other New England timber-toppers...