Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anticipate that this will become a school to train leaders and, though them, the people at large how to translate democratic ideal of administration into living realities," declared Lucius N. Littauer '78 of New York City, founder at the "Silver Trowel" exercise last...
...step approaching. Subconsciously he knew to whom such a step must belong, and he was not interested; he had seen hundreds, all horribly the same. But the maker of this had a smiling face, which might be zealous as well as innocent, and he walked tall and straight, as though aware of obstacles...
Miiller revised the Sermon on the Mount, Bishop Weidemann the Gospel according to St. John. Though both jobs were done more than 18 months ago (TIME, Jan. 25, 1937), the Friends of Europe pamphlet is the first extensive English study of them...
...some human skull fragments which he thought to be of antiquity comparable with the Piltdown skull (TIME, Oct. 12, 1936). Academic anthropologists at first paid him no heed. But when the Swanscombe relic was examined under scholastic auspices, it was seen to be a remarkable thing indeed. Indubitably ancient, though probably not quite so old as the Piltdown, it had modern anatomical features. Anthropologist Sir Arthur Keith, who is 72, gave it as his opinion that the Swanscombe skull is the most important fossil discovery made in England during his lifetime...
Getting down to specifics, Mr. Berle found the undistributed surplus tax defective because "though it retarded growth of existing large corporations, [it] gave them a perpetual franchise, not only to stay large, but to be the only large corporations in existence. No small business could grow up to a point where it could give its larger competitors any real battle...