Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...abolition of the general honors degree was expected after the recommendation of the division of History, Government, and Economics last May, but no steps have yet been taken in that no steps have yet been taken in that no steps have yet been taken in that direction. In spite of frequent criticism in these columns, the published rank list and the general honors degree still remain as obsolete institutions utterly out of line with the aims of tutorial work and of the special fields...
...fashioned some 2,040,000 cars, 42% above 1932. Its sales not only bulged in May and June when all industries were booming, but afterwards, when other industries felt a reaction, it continued making headway. In darkest November it did 108% more business than in November 1932. And in spite of a two-month strike of tool and die makers, in spite of mechanical and style changes which seriously retarded the production of new models, the industry came into the New Year as if 1933 were but a preliminary lap and the National Automobile Show which opens this week...
...tales of returned explorers range in tone all the way from the symphonies of Charles Montagu Doughty to the popular ditties of Richard Halliburton, but invariably they harmonize on taking their travels seriously. Against this impressive but monotonous harmony Explorer-Author Fleming raises a delightfully discordant note. In spite of all temptation to add a glamorous paragraph to adventure's annals he remains the up-to-date young Englishman, telling of his hairbreadth adventurings in the jungles of Brazil as a harebrained joke. Though he takes his stand as a modern member of an unromantic generation, his typical English...
...Chamber of Deputies was told by the committee on paid expenditures that "Japan today invades China; inspired by race hatred, she will plan tomorrow against white men." The reason for this revival of the Yellow Peril is, of course, the realization that the realistically minded Japanese have managed in spite of the Washington Treaty to build a field which is, in all likelihood, the equal of any in the world today, and the fact that Japanese commercial competition, particularly in the field of textiles, threatens to drive European products from the market. The Italian outburst is typical of world feeling...
Still a housekeeper, wife and mother in spite of authorship, Julia Peterkin has little truck with literary haunts. Poet Carl Sandburg once paid her his supreme compliment when he called her the only writer he knew who was not a literary person. Tall and straight, redhaired, with a calm expression, a poised and kindly manner, Authoress Peterkin writes more now than she did but lives as much as ever on her South Carolina plantation. Other books: Black April, Bright Skin. Rascoe Preferred...