Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charging that students were parking their cars on both sides of Quiney Street in spite of traffic rules and to the detriment of the Fire Department's passage through the street, Police Chief Timothy Leahy yesterday warned against this practice...
...credit to the courage and initiative of eight Harvard and Radcliffe graduates that at long last glimmerings of a cooperative lunch and social center may be seen on the horizon. For many years graduate students, as well as undergraduates outside the Houses, have had an amorphous existence. In spite of President Conant's interest in the project, no dining hall was forthcoming; and hopes for a social center were even more illusory. Then, with no sign of help from above, a group of students took matters into their own hands; and now tat their scheme is nearing success, the least...
...designer of this masterpiece signed his name as Anonymous, in spite of the contest's rules which required a signature...
...bill, and to her great amazement, neatly tore this sizable piece of pocket lettuce in to equal halves and gave one to her, keeping the other himself. He then explained politely that neither half would be redeemable without the other, entreated her not to send it to him in spite of any pleas he might make in the future, and depositing a kiss on her perplexed brow, departed for Cambridge...
...spite of the grave social dilemmas they point to-the threat of fascism, war. increasing nationalism, moral confusion-the contributors to America Now are optimistic about the future. They see science, rapid communication, the "prophylaxis of ideas" working for international good will faster than the forces of reaction can work against it. If, they suggest, reactionaries persist in running counter to the people's deep-seated desire for progress and peace, their newspapers will go unread, their movies will be shunned, their broadcasts unheard, their advertising ignored and, if they resort finally to force, their necks broken. Though pessimists...