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Word: nonetheless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although cheap glasses may not fit well, and their flat lenses are not so easy on the eyes as more expensive, curved lenses, they nonetheless serve their purpose according to Dr. Peckham. Says he: "I have no objection to people buying $5 sunglasses, but I do object to their being told that 18? glasses will harm them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Darker the Better | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...earnest treatment of a wildly imaginative novel. The story, derived from one of William Faulkner's most polemic works, was shot almost entirely in Faulkner's home town (Oxford, Miss., pop. 3,500), with the author acting as a sidewalk superintendent during the filming. Nonetheless, the movie, stripped of Faulkner's peripheral probings into mind, heart and scene, is not only dead serious but dead on its feet; its cautious approach to its material results in a film that is more like an arty still photograph than a motion picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...through his zero into death by typhoid, and Kit's zero has become a noose plaited from strands of nymphomania and insanity. All this may be taken straight as simply a lurid, supersexy Sahara adventure story completely outfitted with camel trains, handsome Arabs, French officers and a harem. Nonetheless, The Sheltering Sky is a remarkable job of writing, with a craftsmanship that makes it the most interesting first novel to come from a U.S. writer this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sex & Sand | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...most of British history, Englishmen have been able to take zither music-or leave it to the Tyrolese. Last week, nonetheless, the humble, lap-sized stringed instrument was the musical rage of London. Recording sales were rivaling such alltime British favorites as Gracie Fields and Vera Lynn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Zither Dither | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...picture that dominates the book. "I did not want my husband to be President," she states, probably to the surprise of thousands. "As I saw it, this meant the end of any personal life of my own . . . The turmoil in my heart and mind was rather great." Nonetheless, "I never mentioned my feelings on the subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One of Those Who Served | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

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