Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Jones has never taken a drink (that he knows of), has never smoked tobacco, has seen, he says, only one drunken man in all his life. His range of legislative interest has by no means been confined to prohibition. No smooth speaker, never brilliant, his name is nevertheless upon the latest Merchant Marine Act (Jones-White) under which eleven great Shipping Board vessels were recently sold (TIME, Feb. 18). All day every day during Senate sessions he can be found in his aisle seat, behind an embankment of papers and books, hard at work. No hail-fellow-well...
...Although I have no authorization," Carillo answered, "and my honor as a soldier does not permit me to enter into discussions with such individuals that have lost all military decorum, I accept, nevertheless, these exchanges under condition that they refer to your unconditional surrender...
...humane custom to break the legs of the crucified to speed Death. But Christ died on the cross. Nevertheless, nervously, impulsively, a Roman soldier pierced the body with his spear. Joseph the Arimathaean asked for the body and buried it in a tomb he had intended for himself, where no man had ever lain...
...Wife. Daughter of a beef-colored burgher, who had brewed his way into millions and respectability, Fran was. nevertheless, poised and luminous. She had been to Europe and to an Eastern finishing school; she had born and bred two children; aged 41, she looked a decade younger, for her hair was ash-blond, her figure slim. She talked occasional baby-talk to Sam, tolerated his lovemaking, entertained his friends. Her time was filled with clubs, committees, charities, and bridge; but when Sam sold out his automobile business to a motor corporation, and was temporarily free, she declared her boredom...
...will also include mention of the artist. The fact that Mr. Kent, even prior to the present controversy, terminated relations with Marcus & Co. and is at present engaged in preparing drawings for another Fifth Avenue establishment accents the fact that the Marcus & Co. "incident" is isolated rather than typical. Nevertheless, in an age when many marriages are at tempted between Art & Business*, such an incident seemed likely to confirm the artist in his suspicion that Business is without honor at the moment when Business was beginning to appreciate the fine shades of honor which motivate such an artist as Artist...