Word: yet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yet, for all of this pageantry, the bitter fact remains that Americans know all too little about the pickle. What schoolchild, for example, realizes that Amerigo Vespucci, who gave his name to a hemisphere, once dealt in the pickle traffic in Spain? It is probably safe to say that few college graduates could supply the answer to such a question. Furthermore, how many citizens know that in a broader sense, the term "pickle" can be applied to any saline or acid preservative solution...
...Club, which was first suggested on April 19, has 39 members, in addition to its charter, and a "favorable bank balance." The club has yet to fix a location definitely, but it plans to rent a clubhouse, at least until it is established...
Newsman Shaplen spent 3½ years in Asia himself, and he has tried to translate its political conflicts into fiction. This leads him sometimes into story trouble; yet his people are no puppets, and his firm narrative skill makes what happens to them seem not only credible but inevitable...
...failed to do to Asia but their reactions are impractical and confused and in some cases defy analysis. If Asia itself has anything to worry about after the Western rascals and mixed-up men of good will are kicked out, his heroes haven't figured it out yet...
...first time this year the Crimson was threatened as Penn moved up near the finish. But the varsity showed the 15,000 spectators on the shores of Lake Onondaga that it was able to speed and yet continue to row cleanly. Harvard took the stroke up to 41 and won by open water in 6:48.8 despite a strong headwind...