Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have soccer teams than swimming teams; that almost every high school in the East has its own soccer team; and that statistically almost twice as many freshmen candidates those last fall turned out for soccer as for boxing, wrestling, or hockey at the beginning of the winter season. In spite of this fact, the proposer of the seven-point program recommends that "possibly soccer" be dropped from the H.A.A. and that the less popular sports of boxing and wrestling continue under the old policy of financial support by the University...
...Before Explorer Nesbitt, no white man had ever succeeded in crossing it, though three expeditions had tried. In Hell-Hole of Creation he tells how he and two Italian companions, with a native caravan, traversed the entire length of the Danakil in eventual safety, though only occasional comfort. In spite of the violent title his narrative is straight-forward and quiet. No racketeering travelogger. Author Nesbitt says little more of himself than: "A mining engineer by profession, my chief qualifications for undertaking this enterprise were a varied experience of men and animals, gathered in many parts of the world...
BRAVE MR. BUCKINGHAM - Dorothy Kunhardt - Harcourt, Brace ($1). A toy Indian made of Nugg could always say, in spite of calamities, "THAT DIDN'T HURT." Nonsense with a moral, for children (and adults) by the author of Junket Is Nice...
...Brooks Cavin, Jr. '37 who represented the Crimson were both wrestling under their usual weight. Stoddard who has been fighting in the 135 pound class entered as a 126 pounder; while Cavin came down from his usual 145 pound weight to fight in the 135 pound division. In spite of this slight weight advantage the Crimson grapplers, pitted against an experienced field, were unable to place in the finals...
...music and the Drukmaeler series, good as these may be. Still undismayed, he decides to look over the century when chamber music and opera first flowered--from 1600 to 1700. It is a slight shock to find that the shelves are quite innocent of most of such music, in spite of the fact that much of what he is seeking has been published. Being a persevering fellow, he doggedly goes to the eighteenth century, where again he finds little beyond Bach, Handel, Rameau, Mozart, and Hayden. Having perhaps studied the nineteenth century, our student skips a hundred years, but faints...