Word: although
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Likely to be demanded later if he got this much were more raises for many more workers. If the cinemoguls refused, said Willie Bioff, he would not only strike Hollywood studios but through his close connections with unionized projectionists would close 15,000 movie houses throughout the U. S. Although War II had cut off $44,000,000 of annual revenues from foreign film sales and economy was in order, the producers capitulated to this threat, and Willie Bioff announced a victory. In fact, however, his victory was not as sweeping as he made it appear...
...torrential expressions of Fritz Kuhn's feelings. Wrote the Daily News's owlish reporters: "[The letters] were the masterly efforts of the man of action who-although in the throes of passion-remembers that life is real and life is earnest. In one passage he wrote Florence that he loved her with his whole soul and body and was about to have his teeth fixed...
...train drew in a brass band blared French and Polish airs and the city was thick with crossed French, Polish and British flags. In every shop window were placards reading ALL HONOR TO HEROIC AND MARTYRED POLAND. Citizens of Angers cordially cried "Vive Sikorski" although remarking privately that perhaps the presence of their Polish guests may make Angers a target for German bombs...
Only other man who ever made such a claim was Rear-Admiral Robert Edwin Peary, who died in 1920. Both Cook and Peary were once presidents of Manhattan's famed Explorers' Club. Their portraits now hang there, side by side, although over Peary and Cook, three decades ago, exploded one of the fiercest controversies in the history of exploration...
...years Bishop Rowe visited the U. S. only ten times, to lecture and raise money. Four times he refused bishoprics in the States. Never a great missionary church, the Episcopal Church kept Alaska on meagre rations. The Presbyterians and Roman Catholics kept larger staffs in the territory. But although Alaska's baptized Episcopalians number only 6,360, Bishop Rowe could say that his church has "a prestige among the people of Alaska which is not enjoyed by the other communions." He plans to return to Alaska in January, to be among the Indians whose faith he admires. They will...