Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soissons had to do was put the chestnut carefully over the brook and the shallow finish fence and down the midway to win. Reel Foot and Sea Soldier galloped riderless to the finish, Sea Soldier reaching the judges' stand just behind the winner. Brose Hover took second in spite of his fall. For five minutes the judges stood around in the rain waiting for a third, but nothing came along...
...blanket, acknowledged with a tired lift of his hand-cheers for Bernard ("Barney") Berlinger, Penn's "one-man track team." He had won the decathlon two years in succession and he won it again, hands down, as everyone knew he would, beating his own carnival record in spite of bad conditions...
...record and make sure of a place on the Olympic team. He felt he could do it if he got better at the 1,500-metre run, his nightmare. Hundreds of points he has lost in the past by not being able to score in this event and in spite of all his practicing he only got 348 out of it, bringing his total score...
...Lawler 2L, an ex-Princeton football star, put Harvard in the lead at the outset of the contest when he scored a successful penalty kick for three points. Going into the second half with a score of three to three, the Crimson team showed superior physical trim, and in spite of a hard fight by Syracuse, tries by J. A. Potter '34, R. W. Straus '31, and Lawler, and a converted kick by W. C. Carter '31 gave Harvard the victory...
...spite of the applause which greeted the assertion that the remedy for political evils lies not in the red flag, but in the ballot box, and in spite of the fervor with which the bass drummer accompanied the singing of "The Internationale," neither the man of property nor the apostles of Lenin could glean much satisfaction from the proceedings. For none of the uniformed officers interfered with communist speakers, although outnumbering the twenty-nine avowed communists by almost three to one, they might have mastered them without machine-guns. And none of Moscow's emissaries attempted to heckle Mr. Fish...