Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...started half-hourly broadcasts warning Nazis significantly not to make unauthorized arrests or seizures of property. Nazi boys & girls at this time were swarming aboard railway trains at every stop, importantly demanding to be shown everyone's passport, but travelers who refused these Nazi moppets were not harmed, though fists were shaken in their faces...
Very few of the polio-encephalitis victims died. Some were only mildly and briefly affected, returned to work. Others were desperately ill and still are. Still others, after apparently getting well, suffered sudden relapses, as though a built-up immunity had succumbed to a fresh onslaught of the disease...
Recently Sylva heard there was a chance of improvement by surgical operation-crushing the malformed nerve tracts in her neck in the hope that they would grow together normally. Such an operation, though not unique, is rare. Stocky, bespectacled Dr. Frank Randall Teachenor, one of the most brilliant neurological surgeons in the Midwest, had never before performed it. He warned Sylva that although it might help her, it might make her worse or even cause her death. Sylva decided to take the chance. Her mother tried to dissuade her, but the girl persisted in her determination...
...administrator of the Securities & Exchange Commission's New York office, last week resigned to return to private practice. In so doing, he was following a well-established precedent which has given SEC about the highest rate of personnel turnover in the Government. Reasons for this are twofold: 1) though SEC is full of career men, only a few top-of-the-heap jobs pay an adequate salary; 2) SEC is also full of bright young lawyers who are glad to starve for a year or two in order to get an insight into SEC procedure which makes it easy...
...were pending during their SEC employment without first obtaining permission. FPC announced that no for mer members could appear before it or assist at hearings within one year after resigning. By no means uncommon, similar rules are already in effect for the Treasury Department and the Federal Communications Commission, though not for the Federal Trade or the Interstate Commerce Commission...