Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what the result of the extension of educational facilities has been, there can be no doubt they would be thoroughly disillusioned. The almost unbelievable increase in the complexity of governmental problems has been accompanied by no corresponding development in the capacity of the electorate to deal with them, in spite of a vastly enlarged school system. Some hold that this failure is due to the inherent intellectual limitations of the common man, but Mr. Coe firmly believes that the educational methods are its cause...
Through repeated blood tests it was found that, in spite of intense heat, the character of the blood remained fairly constant. The party was able to dispel the notion that cold water and meat are injurious in hot climates...
...Spite Book...
...LeRoy is regarded as one of the most fascinating, certainly the wisest woman in the International Settlement. In spite of troublous t'ao pings (bandits), a week-end expedition is organized to a temple some distance out of the city. Two love-affairs?between Derek, an attractive attaché, and Judith, Mrs. LeRoy's niece; and between expertly amorous Henri and Annette, a silly U. S. beauty?begin to blossom on the trip. Mrs. LeRoy lends them both bits of her wisdom, begins to need it all for herself when Professor Vinstead falls in love with her. The t'ao pings...
Surprisingly likened to Dostoyevsky (by Andre Maurois, now No. 1 French popular writer and blurber) whose sympathy for his characters is notorious. U. S.French Author Julian Green writes of his human specimens with the coldness but without the spite of an Aldous Huxley. His uninspiring, rather clammy books are informative but disagreeable, arouse respect but rarely sympathy...