Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...universal consent. Indeed so great is he that he needs not our "weak witness" of his name though very uncertain do we feel about his life and birth. And his poem Li Sao, the Exile's Grief, stands with the Riad, the Divine Comedy, the Paradise Lost, etc., in spite of its shortness in length. Chinese poetry, like any other poetry, is written primarily...
Disturbances late at night on Mount Auburn Street and in the Yard have not ceased in spite of the pleas of the captains of baseball, track, and crew, who complained that the renditions of "popular" songs by revelers are disturbing the sleep of the athletes who are in strict training for the most important events of the year...
...Last fall students received $3352.56 from work on the concessions. When the sharp decline in attendance at football games is taken into consideration, this steady advance in earnings becomes doubly significant. It is hard to understand why an organization which can increase its earnings fifty per cent in spite of a decrease in the number of potential customers should be characterized as lacking in efficiency...
...organization last night issued the following statement in reply to queries of metropolitan reporters: "It's the best thing for all of us, I worked my heart out on this sheet, but we were at the end of our rope. Our debts were increasing day by day and in spite of the issues that we have tried to capitalize on, we have been unable to meet our obligations...
...spite of the fact that they made only two base hits, the Junior Varsity nine defeated Rindge Tech Saturday by a score of 3-1. Starting in the first inning, the Crimson team converted two errors, a base on balls, and a sacrifice hit into one run. Their other two tallies came in the seventh...