Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Road races, in spite of the enthusiasm with which they have been received in Europe have never found much favor in this country mainly because the roads were not available for such a use. Barron Gollier, advertising mogul, has contributed much time, effort and money to popularize road races and has built a circuit in Pocantico, New York, where races have been held for some time...
Some universities have found that the present regime and period has opened more opportunities to their graduates than in previous administrations in spite of the depression...
...comedy this time has a serious basis in spite of all its humor. Kings-land, Macy, the Republican State Chairman, has had a fit of hysterics which hinder any chances for the governorship that the G.G.P. possesses. A man of force and sincerity, Mr. Macy possesses the unfortunate characteristics of stubbouness and suspicion. He is imbued with the idea that he must carry on in the Hughes and Theodore Roosevelt vein of reform and has selected utilities as the animal which will bring him fame. Aside from the fact that this issue has no live interest today, it has given...
...spite of the ballyhoo about the careful in difference of Harvard undergraduates in spite of the growing demands of tutors, and what not, in spite of wind, weather and tide there are usually a couple of fellows coming back to college every year who want to know what the football team is doing, what it's done already and what sort of play they're going to have to endure this fall in the stadium...
...spite of his amusement, he expressed sympathy for those who are in charge of certain survey courses belaboured by the Guide. "What can the poor devils do?" he asked. However, his applause was too emphatic for quotation as he read some of the outspoken quips, and the group which had gathered around to watch the great man's reaction quivered with anticipation as he turned the page to "History 1," the course which all recent graduates associate so vividly with Professor Merriman...