Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cleary, who had signed letters soliciting funds, promising repayment when the estate was secured of $200 for $1. The letters claimed that Thomas Edmund Dewey, Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone and Chairman Winthrop Aldrich of Manhattan's great Chase National Bank were all interested in the case. Though indicted, James Cleary was not tried, for the good reason that he was imaginary...
Next question the world wanted answered was: If Neville Chamberlain knew what was going to happen, why did he act as though he didn...
...Dorothy Barber, young Kansas City, Mo. matron who could not get enough food even though she ate 20 times a day (TIME, March 13), announced that she was not unduly hungry any more, had settled down to only three meals a day. "God has heard my prayers," cried she. "I really believe He has cured...
...Refugee children, even though they were not starved in Germany, eat enormously, eight or ten times a day, but gain little weight. One boy begged to be made a cook's helper so he could eat all day. Mrs. Fincke's explanation: food is a form of security. When she asked a little girl why she ate so much, the child replied: "I must eat against...
...Though it is miles this side of Ultima Thule, her newest book, The Young Cosima, will have allowances made for it. Reason: it concerns the most fantastic romance of the most fantastically romantic of composers, Richard Wagner. Wagnerian freshmen who think the Tarnhelm* was something to steer a boat with will take to the book no less than initiates, for the triangle has a dependable literary as well as musical tinkle. In this case: a great man wanting sympathy, a young man wanting love, an intensely ambitious young woman no more capable of love than a piano stool...