Word: albeit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what the other is doing (not to mention that no one knows what the Med School is doing until they read the Boston papers). Last summer, for example, the Real Estate Office contracted to sell two houses to a local real estate agent, even though another office had proposed--albeit some time previously--to sell the houses to a neighborhood association. After tempers had flared, the officers of the association finally concluded that the entire episode had been caused by a breakdown in the internal and external communications of the University...
...that the Harvard-Yale game will be close. It must be kept firmly in mind, at least for the glory of it, that Yale is one of the greatest teams in the nation, in history, in the universe, in the mind of God, and that Harvard, albeit nice and good and undefeated, is no match for Brian Dowling, that wonderful hero, and the rest of the Yale football team...
Soon after, however, Ingersoll as well as Goldsborough left the company. MacLeish had already resigned-taking a parting shot, albeit friendly, at Luce: "It's very hard to be as successful as you have been and still keep your belief in the desperate necessity for fundamental change. I think you have been an honorable journalist. You would have been happier in a fight, though...
Freaks is at a disadvantage because Browning apparently felt that for the movie to work, the Freaks needed our sympathy; so he took pains to present them as well-rounded, even conventional people. Plot is simply enough the story of two normal, albeit perverse, individuals who try to take advantage of the little people. Unnecessarily fearful our emotions will attach to the beautiful trapeze artist and her strongman lover, Browning keeps telling us how freaks are people like anyone else...
...last suspicious Derby, albeit a more picturesque one, was run in 1933, when the jockeys on the two leading horses--Broker's Tip and Head Play--engaged in a vicious battle in the stretch, pulling at each other's reins and whipping each other. Broker's Tip finished first and the stewards allowed the race to stand. He never won another race...