Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anomaly is to be attributed to a general low standard of acting in the films or whether it is due to some innate ability in Mr. Baer, is a problem for individual solution. Myrna Loy and Walter Buston turn in their usual creditable performances, and Otto Kruger manages, in spite of the natural limitations of his trite role, to touch the high spots from time to time...
Certainly there is little justification for complaining about Chemistry 2a (even in spite of the odors), since it is the only course in the field which approaches being a "snap"--excepting possibly Chemistry 15. I can see but one real excuse for all this shouting about hours spent in laboratories--namely, that the man spending his hours in Mallinckrodt has to work twice or three times as hard (and as long) to get a B or an A as the man who takes only the proverbial "snap" courses...
...even be able to be sent in at all and that it is considered advisable to keep Lane out altogether. Their Varsity letters may be voted by members of the squad, coaches, etc., and it is likely that this will be the method used in awarding them. In spite of their injuries, however, they will dress for the game...
...spite of the fact that a deadlock was prevented only by Mickey Walker's illegal kick, which gave Harvard the ball in scoring territory, the Crimson showed for the first time that it could do something when the goal-line was in sight. In the plays, both by men playing in new holes, Danny Wells and Chet Litman, the ball was carried from the 14-yard line for a score. Credit for the victory must go to the New Deal in the football team, which put in a new left side of the line and completely jumbled up the backfield...
...read are classics. The argument is that if one is to learn a language, he might as well know it in its perfect form. However, this method of teaching deprives the student of much of the color and life of a language. The classical prose and poetry is, in spite of its sometimes artificial form, usually worth reading for its beauty. But, by confinement to such works, the student may get an unnatural view of the language as a whole...