Word: spite
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Brown defeated the sturdy Vermont eleven 12 to 9 in spite of playing extremely poor football...
...carrying out of the program which had been planned by the New Zealand committee. When the American visitors sailed from America on July 22, no intimation of the coming war had reached them. They arrived in New Zealand on August 13, in the early stages of the war. In spite of the depressing influence of the war, the plan for holding scientific meetings in Wellington and Christ Church was not wholly abandoned, but it was thought best to curtail or abandon altogether most of the social functions which had been included in the program...
Three handicap track events were run off yesterday in spite of the inclement weather. The winners and their times follow...
...spite of its many qualifications Washington and Jefferson is likely to find it surprisingly hard to make the kind of headway it is hoping for against Harvard. The opponents' defence has been rudely built, and though it is strong, may not prove impregnable. As for the attack, with the University's weakened line, it is here that Washington's menace is greatest; yet Harvard may be counted upon to hold Spiegel in check far better than anyone he has met this year...
...spite of the long recognized desirability of arousing greater interest throughout the University in contemporary social and political movements the fact remains that the active interest taken by members of the University in the public affairs of the day is far less than ought to be the case. Among undergraduates, for instance, the amount of leisure time consumed in the mere discussion of political affairs is much less than is the case, for example, with the students of an English university. The causes for this condition are perhaps due, in some degree at least, to inherent differences...