Word: spite
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard nine defeated the Lovell nine yesterday by a score of 14 to 8 in a fairly interesting game. In spite of the weather which was very cold and windy, the team put up a much better game than they did against the second nine last week. The fielding was generally good and the batting heavy...
...distilled liquors. Beer has a degenerating influence on the whole system, and beer drunkenness is the most degrading of all; it multiplies all forms of diseases and crimes. An idea has got abroad that drunkenness does not exist in wine producing countries. This is not true. The Germans, in spite of the popular notion that they are only beer drinkers, drink more heavy drink than any other people...
When the history of the present century is written, one of the most important events to describe will be the colonization of Africa and its division among the great European nations. In spite of the large size of this continent, very little is known about it, and few settlements have been made. This is partly explained by the unhealthfulness of the climate, and by the fact that the large rivers are closed to navigation by rapids near their mouths...
...hundred and twenty years ago at this season of the year, said Mr. Copeland in beginning his lecture, General Gage, then in possession of Boston, thought it would be a good move to sieze the colonists' stores of arms and ammunition at Concord. In spite of all the general's attempts at secrecy his plan transpired, and on the night of the 18th of April, 1775, the country was quietly alarmed by Paul Revere and other persons, and the news went forth that a detachment of British regulars had left Boston for Concord. According to the received account, they...
...Ivan Tonjoroff contributes the explanation of "Why I Left the Army." In spite of paragraphs one sentence in length and sentences equally abbreviated we learn the reason without much excitement. The tale has a certain atmosphere of familiarity about it which makes the reader feel that he has been there before...