Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ladies have protested to the officers in charge that such a procedure of making small boys fill the role of the caged monkey is not exactly ethical. Perhaps the vision of their own offspring in such a predicament appalls them or maybe it is just an overabundance of sympathy. Nevertheless, the fact remains that putting little boys in pens for a few hours is much less vicious than hauling them off to the local jail and from the antics of those confined, it is doubtful if their sensibilities are in any way impaired...
...Nevertheless, it has some advantage over a monastic kind of education which withdraws from ordinary contact of life a group of boys of similar environment and denies to them real instruction and guidance in such matters as understanding the organization of industry, contact with practical situations in politics, how to meet every kind of human being, how to budget personal time and expenditures, and how to integrate earning capacity with learning...
...that the trial had been postponed to Nov. 12. For, said Judge Charles C. Nott Jr., city magistrate, "under no circumstances" would the trial be held while the election was still pending and the case remained a political football. Judge Nott, a Republican, is no Tammany man. Tammany opponents nevertheless flayed the postponement...
...Nevertheless, it was no sinecure that the new ambassador was taking over. Even discounting the anti-Machado petition as representing a volatile temperament influenced by a political and personal bias, there still remained the injured U. S. citizens and their grievances against the Cuban state. The five chief cases, each christened for its claimant...
...clearly shown when it is explained that the condemnation of just one judge is sufficient to put any book on the banned list, which now contains 759 items. A government customs official, after looking through Rousseau's "Confessions," admitted that he saw nothing bad in them, but was forced, nevertheless, to refuse admittance for the book. He said that no matter what he might think, he could not do anything about letting the book into the country. Another unusual case is that in which a four hundred year old edition of the "Decameron" of Boccaccio was not allowed to come...