Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of their amusement, the editors admitted that the press was the object of increasing denunciation. Recognizing these tendencies, the editors pontifically restated their "aims and ideals...
Bitter but sensitive and attractive foliage, Poet Holden's 77 new lyrics are written in a choosy, pressed-flower language that ensures entrance into many poetical anthologies, few human lives. But in spite of Natural History's, painstakingly sterilized language, the book has several narrow escapes-as in The Linden Boughs Are Bare, Proud, Unhoped-for Light-from being contagiously good...
...institutional Church, and for him this Church is the custodian of a revealed, written or preached Word. Earth is not a Fundamentalist as U. S. divines understand Fundamentalism. Barthians accept modern Biblican criticism freely. To them the Word is something apprehended in man's conscience, often understood in spite of, rather than because of, the interpretations of preachers and theologians...
When a business runs into hard times, it pulls in its financial belt. The present U. S. Government, while it will not trust business to mind its own affairs, is not a business. In spite of the Administration's anti-trust tirades and its plans for lower daily wages for the building trades, for reorganization of untenable capital structures like the railroads, when it came to the point it has shied away from meeting deflation by the orthodox means of scaling down monopolistic high prices, disproportionate wages and interest charges. "Because it is unpopular to readjust by liquidation...
Laski, who is now professor of Political Science in the University of London, resigned from the University to take his present position after the board of Overseers had refused to take any action against him in spite of vehement protests on his attitude, allegedly favoring the striking policemen...