Word: spite
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...singing for the sake of singing itself is infinitely superior to an older professional group if the purely technical problems of fullness of tone and precision of performance can be overcome. The success of Mr. Woodworth in obtaining results of high professional standard from the student choir, in spite of the tremendous size of the yearly schedule, has provided this community with just such a chorus...
...significant position in Brahms' life since its popularity in Germany during his lifetime brought him his first wide-spread recognition. The text was compiled by Brahms himself of meditations from the Bible concerning death and the life to come. It is thoroughly Protestant in its attitude, and in spite of the melancholy and grimness of some passages and the profound nature of the work as a whole, the optimistic Protestant conception of a blessed eternity for the righteous is the essence of its spirit. The terror of the Day of Judgment is followed by the defeat of Death, and even...
...spite of large corps of professional blood donors, and well-stocked blood banks, hospitals often need blood for emergency transfusions. Last week Dr. Harry Davis of the University of Tennessee Medical School at Memphis, reported that he had used a common medical waste product, ascitic fluid, as a successful substitute for blood...
...bloody operating rooms of France during the War, Dr. Cushing led a life of scientific asceticism. In spite of grueling works (he often performed as many as six operations in one day) he faithfully jotted down his scientific observations. He also found time to keep a detailed journal. As remarkable for its restraint as for its scientific and military detail, the journal tells in vivid doctor's language of Dr. Cushing's siege of Polyneuritis ambulatoria, a crippling inflammation of nerve trunks, which caused the muscles in his soles and palms to waste away. After the Armistice...
...landscaped 540 California acres into a Yorkshire moor. He imported eight British actors, a dialect expert to see that their accents matched, 1,000 panes of hand-blown glass for interior shots and 1,000 heather plants for outdoors. He did not attempt to send for Emily Bronte. In spite of this oversight, there is not much she could have done to improve this screen translation of her masterpiece...