Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of the fact that more Harvard men have registered for employment this year at the Student Employment Office than ever before, 60 per cent of them, a larger number than last year or the previous year, have been given work. According to the report of January 1, 1080 members of the University have applied, and 655 have found jobs...
...Driving ahead in Vienna, Cardinal Innitzer, just before Christmas, secured the adoption by an informal congress of Jewish, Orthodox, Protestant and Catholic churchmen from all over Europe of a resolution which was being printed into pamphlets last week, along with His Eminence's more gruesome pictures. Excerpts: "In spite of all efforts to minimize and deny that catastrophic starvation condi tions ravaged the Soviet Union in the days previous to the harvest it is herewith emphatically declared and certified that in the course of the present year (1933) millions of innocent persons, many of whom were residents...
...financiers to less than lifesize. Such a student of the period will list in his bibliography this lurid sketch of Author Winkler's on the Stillman family and what was once their National City Bank. A garish specimen of the oleographic school of portraiture, The First Billion, in spite of its crude perspective and uncertain line, has enough factual force to make a simple reader's flesh creep. At the other extreme from eulogy, it contains about as little of the blood of human likeness. Author Winkler's unretouched journalese is no more sensitive a medium than...
...spite of increasingly prohibitive scholastic standards the volume and pressure of students come up and swamp the medical schools. The facilities of the schools are inadequate to meet the number and only the most excellent students are taken...
...horrifying tiptoe, it soon bumps down to the flat policeman tread of any cheerful murder story. David Saunders, narrator of the tale, was a poor hard-working student at the Altonville State Medical School. Like most others, he admired Dr. Wyck's brains, disliked his brutality. But in spite of small-town rumor he never con sidered Dr. Wyck crazily evil until the terrified behavior of one of Dr. Wyck's patients gave him a clue. When the patient went insane with fear, when the first symmelus (monster with lower extremities fused) was born at the hospital, David...