Word: nonetheless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first appearance on Continental courts, and he gave the Frenchmen a lusty battle, but that was all. The critical match was the doubles: Tilden & Hunter v. Cochet & Borotra. The Frenchmen were not an efficient team; they bumped into each other and let several balls drop between them. Nonetheless, their individual brilliance conquered Ace Tilden and Hapless Hunter, 6-4, 6-8, 7-5, 4-6, 6-2. It was a melee that the fillers of Roland Garros Stadium did not soon forget...
Henry Irving and it is on record that she detested U. S. playgoers because they seemed generally to prefer the melancholy Booth. She nonetheless toured the U. S. with great success and sometimes sent her greetings to its citizens. Portia was her greatest role; her admirers bewail the fact that she never played Rosalind for whom her sharp features, her grace and gaiety and the instinctive good taste of her acting would so well have fitted her. Her association with Irving-with whom she played from 1878 to 1902-terminated in a quarrel which was never completely explained. Soon after...
German View. The official view of the German Republic, based on the findings of a German Commission of Inquiry, is that the combustion of the Library of Louvain arose from accidental causes, in the absence of any adequate fire fighting equipment, and without incendiary act by any German whomsoever. Nonetheless beaten Germany has made the reparation specified in the Treaty of Versailles; and Monsignor Ladeuze does not hold that this reparation should now be repatriated to Germany...
...analyzed the employment records of 187,390 U. S. manufacturing plants, employing 8,383,261 wage earners. Building, mining and transportation industries were ignored. Their millions of workers are almost entirely unionized, and their inclusion in the National Association of Manufacturers' statistics would distort the open shop picture. _ Nonetheless, Mr. Peck's findings were significant. In the industries investigated only 13.7% of the plants employed only union help, and these people comprised only 7.4% of those employed in all the especially picked factories. Non-union factories numbered 11.%, their employes 11.3% There remained the shining open shop plants...
...mixed with his anticipations of the journey that lay before him. In Manhattan, a pastor's flock often contains a goodly proportion of black sheep; but on Nebraska's plains, what agile and goatish rams must gambol and run; what wild shy ewes upon its crooked paths! Nonetheless, when the rites of consecration were over, Bishop Rummel made a short, genial speech, then conferred upon his mother, who was still crying while she knelt, his first Bishop's blessing...