Word: spite
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...tempting one for the tired scholar. Though the use of Hemenway Gymnasium is forbidden there are rewards. The bankrupt student may not go to recitations or to the Stadium (thus exempting him from drill) and so days of long sleep and no work are within his grasp. In spite of these visions of a paradise at Cambridge we advise paying up at any cost for the arm of the Dean is long and the days of rest would precede months of hard labor. Our watch-ery today must be: On, on to Dane Hall...
...vessel. Lloyd George has again urged us to increase our shipbuilding to the maximum efficiency, not only to make good the losses due to the submarines, but also to manage the transportation of a greater army than we had planned. It is pleasing to us to note that in spite of the unfortunate Goethals-Denman controversy, the shipbuilding program did not cease. By means of a unified and efficient Shipping Board, the results we attain will be surprising to our allies and disconcerting to our enemies. The carrying out of this program is the necessary forerunner of any success...
...soon be useless. His discomfort and lack of subjects prevent our hearing how bad conditions are. Although the warnings of a true pessimist may spur us on to more vigorous action, yet they tend to bring comfort to our enemies. Too much optimism, however, is little more valuable, in spite of the fact that it is more agreeable. We want not the depths of pessimism, nor the heights of optimism...
...rural regions of it. In this play he is, as usual, just a plain, easy-going country chap, who can faze a multi-millionaire with a shrug of the shoulder. That's probably why Boston likes William Hodge better than Broadway likes him. And that's why, in spite of a rather vapid vehicle, William Hodge will continue to talk through his nose at the Majestic for eight or ten weeks--unless influenza seizes him. N. R. O'HARA...
...cabinet. From the beginning of the war the "Tiger of France" has resolutely abstained from co-operating with any political group, sitting aside and criticizing whatever government happened to be in power. His efforts have been destructive rather than constructive in aim and in result. But in spite of this inability to work with others, Clemenceau is a terrific driving power, a masterful organizer, and an extreme anti-German patriot. During his former stay in office as Prime Minister, he ruled France with an iron hand, cowing the Chamber into submission, and countering every German intrigue. The other politicians have...