Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turnstile has proved itself a valuable addition in spite of the slight inconvenience it has caused students. Together with the examples made of thieves, it has been instrumental in stopping over 85 per cent of all losses. It has stopped all deliberate thefts, and prevents the inadvertent student from accidentally removing a volume...
...suicide because of his prognostications; Fedora's handwriting reveals to Sebastian what she really is. With the discovery that he had accused the wrong man of the Bassan robbery, Sebastian throws up his prophesying in disgust. He returns to Agnes, a country girl who has kept loving him in spite of his career, and whom he has gotten with child. Anxiety before the child's birth makes him try his hand at prophecy again?to his horror he foresees a stillborn babe. When all-loving Agnes presents him with a bouncing boy, he renounces prophecy for good; goes back with...
...vote down the sales tax. The cry is "to" place the burden of taxation where it belongs". If they succeed the opposition will place all the burden of taxation on incomes and ignore completely the proposed sales tax. This safe and reasonable course seems likely to be chosen in spite of the opposition of the Administration...
...solitary attempt at the popular sport of tradition-concocting was in connection with the Agassiz Cup. A "tradition" of Eliot House supremacy was solemnly proclaimed by the Master, in spite of the fact that the cup has not yet been raced for. But the crew seems to have enthusiasm as well as a brand-new coach, so that the venerable Lowell-Dunster rivalry is likely to be invaded by a brash newcomer...
...Women in spite of all their protests to the contrary want to be dependent on men. Men will feel hurt if a woman begins to dominate the household. The custom and experience of generations cannot be wiped out in a decade...