Word: spite
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Both University and Freshman harriers were given a stiff workout at Soldiers Field yesterday. Coach Farrell intends to keep his men working nard all week in preparation for the difficult contests ahead. In spite of the defeats last Saturday, he expects to round both University and Freshman teams into form before the next race...
...machines and the change in the methods of fighting and observing. Two years ago the "Huns" fought in squadrons while the English never fought in more than pairs. Now the English fight in squads of ten or twelve machines, and the Germans in squads of twenty. But even in spite of the numbers, England has had the supremacy...
...made prime minister, his stay in office was embittered by the virulent opposition of the extreme radicals, who on one occasion passed a vote of confidence in his successor upon his announcing identically the same program as the day before had caused M. Ribot's defeat. But in spite of such treatment he has been willing to perform every service in his power for the good of the country...
...spite of horned-spectacles and mild manners, these professors' suggestions have been worthy of serious consideration. Their war plans have in mind something more than the mere running of the war. It was they who, under the title of intellectuals, hoped that war might come, in order that many of the injustices which they believe have existed in the past might be corrected. Their lives had been spent in dealing with principles and theories and abstractions. But now they have come into power at a time when many things are being changed and theories may actually be put into practice...
Most of our undergraduates expected that Ayer would be their destination, and the Sunny South of New York State comes as a relief. In spite of all that has been said, Yaphank is not a bad spot to spend the winter. Undoubtedly it is less frigid than Ayer; in fact the center of Long Island is supposedly ten degrees warmer than New York City itself. The coating of snow and ice will keep the terrible dust down; the monotany of swamp-oak will be broken by this time by the newly-laid out drill grounds and cantonments...