Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...injury sustained in the Yale meet will keep Don Armstrong out of competition for the rest of the year. He was thrown off the mat onto the floor, striking his head, and it is believed that he suffered a slight concussion. In spite of the handicap, he managed to win a decision over his opponent...
...Davis boxed his first intercollegiate match against Dartmouth intramural champions two weeks ago, and put his man away with a technical knockout. Sherlock. Ellis, and Oakes will remain in their present classes, and Whitney, who showed his possibilities against Staunton, is again taking his place at 135 pounds. In spite of these ineligibilities, Coach Lamar considers this lineup the strongest one which he has put into a meet this year...
...Thumping away at his theme song of political persecution, Lawyer Hogan got a Deputy Commissioner of Internal Revenue to admit that an Assistant Attorney General had initialed the Bureau's letter notifying Mr. Mellon of his tax deficiency. The Hogan conclusion: Attorney General Cummings for political and personal spite had inveigled a reluctant Internal Revenue Bureau into pressing the case against Mr. Mellon...
...perfected a cigar machine which cut, rolled and wrapped the leaves, made the cheap cigar profitable to produce. In 1921 about 30% of the 6,726,000,000 cigars consumed sold at 5? or less. In 1933, the proportion had jumped to 85%. This stupendous gain was made in spite of the fact that cigarets and Depression had cut total cigar consumption to new lows. Nickel cigars had simply profited at the expense of higher-priced brands...
...spite of the opinion of Pundit William Lyon Phelps who hailed Author Roy Cory Hutchinson's first book (The Answering Glory) as "a shout of joy," U. S. readers with an eye for good writing were beginning to watch Author Hutchinson closely, called him far & away better than his name-fellow, Arthur Stuart Menteth Hutchinson (If Winter Comes). After reading his second, The Unforgotten Prisoner, even level-headed critics called him better than Galsworthy. But last week, after reading his third, Author Hutchinson's praisers modified their mounting applause, called him better than the late William J. Locke...