Word: albeit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...menus may differ from other Houses' on a given night, Reynolds says, but the food is the same, cooked in similar cauldrons, albeit in a different kitchen. The same shiny serving tables are used, and the same forks and knives; the same celery stands at the end of the line...
...author handles his material adequately, albeit not very colorfully. This is noticeable especially in his account of the Olympic games--the facts are all there but they don't make for stimulating reading half a year later. But even with all the right times and batting averages, the book contains several flaws...
...hurried illustrators of passing quips. Yet the best of them, typified by Punch's present Editor Cyril K. Bird (portraits of England's beleaguered middle class) and the Evening Standard's bumptious David Low, showed the old English bite and a talent for good-natured selfcriticism, albeit streamlined...
Considering their limited resources, Barnaby's men have shown extremely well since the start of the season, albeit against mediocre competition. But this afternoon the opposition is the defending Ivy League champion. Cornell was one of two eastern teams able to beat the Crimson last season...
...said, give examinations that try to find out whether a candidate knows what the examiners know, not what the candidate himself knows; they stifle medical progress by "withholding approval of the new by insistent emphasis on expert knowledge of the old"; they become "partners of static and reactionary, albeit powerful and respectable, inertia or ignorance." Dr. Gregg's suggestion: pick specialists by their competence in practice...