Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left the Elephants far behind. Although the Winthrop House crew has shown considerable potential speed on the river, Dunster and Eliot have exhibited great evenness of timing in the practice sessions. Eliot House, which has two boatloads of men to pick from, is the favorite in some quarters in spite of its extreme lightness. Winthrop, on the other hand, has entered a heavy crew...
Enclosed find money order for $5 in payment of my renewal order sent in some time ago-in spite of the giggle about our paternal grandfather Missouri nosepicker Silver Dick Bland (TIME...
...Lampoon." Disappointed and infuriated by their failure to find the sheets which had previously been hidden, their numbers now increased to ten, the invaders took their revenge by binding and gagging J. M. Boyd '35, CRIMSON editor, who was at the time working in the building. In spite of the gallant attempt at rescue made by R. P. Buch '34, and the effective defense afforded by the shovel of Adolph, veteran janitor, who was subsequently imprisoned in the boiler room, the visitors succeeded in driving Buch out of the building and into the inner sanctuary of the Catholic church. They...
Meanwhile the treasurer of the Lampoon, anxious to supply the papers with stories for their morning editions, arranged with radio station WBZ in Boston to have Boyd speak over the air in the evening. Upon his refusal to do this in spite of threats, R. J. Walsh '34, Ibis of the Lampoon, undertook to impersonate Boyd, and succeeded in hoaxing the managers of the radio station into allowing him to broadcast...
...features were formed, he should appreciate and enjoy Professor Mather's course. Of course, as in all elementary sciences the new and unfamiliar technique to be mastered and the arbitrary manner of setting forth principles and facts to be memorized is apt to repel the would be scientist. In spite of the popular conceptions of geologists in boy scout uniforms, hammering at rocks or partly fossilized among their dried bones and museum specimens, this is one of the most stimulating of the sciences. It teaches one to think in terms of great stretches of space and time and even...