Word: spite
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...permitted to spend on liquor the money needed for the sustenance of his family. Let us take to heart the word that comes from Russia to the effect that the savings in her banks have increased more than twenty-fold since the prohibition of the sale of vodka in spite of the terrible cost...
Thirty-two volumes have already been produced or else will be out in a few weeks, while others are far advanced in preparation or nearly ready in manuscript. This has been accomplished in spite of the fact that the war hampers the entire undertaking because many of the contributors are scholars of Europe and India, and also because much of the Oriental printing is done at Oxford and Bombay...
Enrolment in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps as it now exists at the University was reopened today and in spite of the uncertain conditions the results were encouraging. Ninety men enrolled in the course at the Recorder's Office and of this number 75 have reported for their physical examination. Of these 62 have so far been accepted. Enlistment may be made daily from 9 to 6 at Warren House through Friday...
...with it and controlled absolutely the branch of the Government responsible to the voters up to November, 1916. The consent of the governed has not been, until the recent Jones Bill was passed by Congress and signed by President Wilson, a recognized axiom of government in Porto Rico. In spite of popular support, the Unionist Party, as any other party would have been, was helpless to solve the vital questions affecting Porto Rico--the relations between the island and the United States, the curbing of the omnipotence of corporations, etc., for the simple reason that by the Foraker...
...students is rated by the final examinations held the latter part of May and the first two weeks of June. This is particularly true of first-year men. It is, furthermore, a more difficult proposition to advance the schedule of these examinations than those of other departments. In spite of this, however, it is expected that the plans evolved will be satisfactory to all concerned...