Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Camden, N. J., Neighbor Kisselman, after a quarrel with Neighbor Cavalieri, threw up a 6-ft. $300 barbed-wire spite fence. In reply Neighbor Cavalieri hoisted a pink wooden pig on a pole to grimace down at Neighbor Kisselman. Neighbor Kisselman ranged along his spite fence two pigs, a toad, a wolf, two snakes, a wild bull, a skunk, a baboon; portraits of Neighbor Cavalieri...
Until the schools adopt truly educational programs, the hue and cry about reduced budgets, etc., is not really important. I say this in spite of the fact that my livelihood depends on those same budgets and I have felt the influence of the most extreme demand for economy...
Last week the Borah bill came up on the regular Senate calendar. Conservative Senator Reed of Pennsylvania promptly suggested it be passed over. Senator Borah resolutely moved that in spite of the objection the bill be considered and he demanded a roll call. The clerks called the 96 names, and after the vote some half-dozen Senators rose to alter their ballots or transfer their pairs, leaving the result in doubt...
Using methods patterned after the famous experiments of Foucault and Michelson, N. Henry Black '96, assistant professor of Physics, has been determining the speed of light by means of apparatus constructed under his direction in the Physics department. Professor Black pointed out that, in spite of its enormous size, the speed of light is known with greater accuracy than almost any other physical constant and that it is important in the study of many other types of radiation besides optics...
Traveling to Danvers this afternoon, the 1937 nine will meet the St. John's team. In spite of the fact that Danvers is a long ways off in the country, its baseball team has had a remarkably successful season so far this year, downing Andover by a score of 17-3, Lord Tannis 16-4, and New England School of Accounting 18-3. The Crimson sluggers thus may find themselves hard pushed to uphold their record of eight wins and one defeat...