Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...always carried with her. After four years in separate cells he stole to her one night, to find the long separation had made her a stranger, convent-grey and dull, while for him, a man, the four years' con- finement among books had served to unshackle his mind. Nevertheless, he passed up his chance of escape to fight, as their own lawyer, for reversal of his death sentence, for her freedom and separation from her husband...
...secure the passage of prohibitory legislation and then leave it to the Government to carry out the reformers' ideas. . . . We go in strongly for 'noble experiments' and while I suppose that no one would pretend that we really want to be good, we are nevertheless anxious that the world should understand that we approve of goodness in others...
...gesture," replied that as a "gesture" he thought it would be "very weak." Kentucky's Senator Barkley (Democrat) pointed out that it was "no gesture" to reduce tariff on "something that does not matter while increasing it on things that do." Nevertheless, foreign countries must reduce their duties on U. S. cars to 10% to get the benefit of the U. S. 10% duties on their cars. And certainly every piercing U. S. automotive eye is at present turned toward Europe...
...about as many automobiles as the U. S. had in 1919. There are now almost four times as many motor cars in the U. S. as there were in 1919. It is not likely that Europe will multiply its motor registration by four in the next ten years. Nevertheless, U. S. motormen feel the "outside" world is the next great world to conquer. Just as Mr. Macauley considers that he has well established the Packard in the U. S., he?and General Motors, Ford, Chrysler et al.?can do it all over again abroad...
Editor Davis, though forced to neglect France, Italy, all of South America and Africa, nevertheless manages to collect in this book the opinions of 31 labor leaders from the rest of the world, 13 of them from the U. S. and Canada...