Word: although
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Congress had given President Roosevelt his way in most matters, but it balked at the Seaway. The Senate refused to ratify the treaty with Canada that had been signed in the last days of the Hoover Administration, although the President had twice sent messages urging its ratification. Last week he let it be known that he would bring up the Seaway again, in time for his prospective honeymoon with Congress during the third Administration. He had Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle publish the banns. In Detroit Mr. Berle read a Presidential message to a conference of Seaway supporters...
Last week the Christmas shutdown, was on in earnest, but with a new twist. Spreading through the Northwest was a joint A. F. of L.C. I. O. strike that at week's end had closed 38 mills and five logging camps. Although there was some talk that its long extension might injure national defense, the strike-ridden Northwest has had more than its share of strikes, and this one aroused little public outcry. But it was like no other Northwest lumber strike on record. It promised to set a new-pattern in Northwest labor relations. It threatened to isolate...
Against night bombing there was still practically no defense at all. Losses were almost all upon one side. Although they amounted to only a few hundred people killed and maimed nightly, they also included the houses in which men slept, the factories in which they worked, the shops at which they got the necessities of life, the docks at which the sinews of war were delivered, the railroads by which commerce moved...
...Although favored to repeat last year's win over practically the same Harvard team, the taller, but inaccurate Wesleyan team spent most of the first period trying to get possession of the ball while the Crimson nonchalantly piled up an early 8 to 0 lead...
...Although the postponement causes considerable inconvenience and delay to research workers, the Library authorities have decided not to risk destruction of the materials, Mr. Metcalf said...