Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Admiral, a three-year-old last year, had won every race he started, including the so-called triple crown (Kentucky Derby. Preakness, Belmont Stakes), and wound up the year with earnings of $166,500 in spite of being hors de combat for five months because of a sore foot. His owner, Samuel D. Riddle, and many another thought War Admiral was the greatest horse in the world...
Last week, as the winter symphonic season approached its end, boards of directors and impresarios were either doleful or delighted over prospects for 1938-39. Deepest dumps were in Portland, Ore., where the 27-year-old Portland Symphony, in spite of assiduous nursing by Conductor Willem van Hoogstraten, gave its last concert and disbanded for lack of funds. Loudest whooping came from Manhattan, where NBC officials announced proudly that famed Maestro Toscanini had signed up for another three years of expensive winter symphonic broadcasts...
...Widener Library and guiding visitors around the Yard, is currently considered Harvard's most outstanding quarter-miler, is on the board of The Guardian (new undergraduate magazine), is a member of the Dramatic Club and is on the Dean's List (high-standing students). In spite of the fact that he broke his arm when he was five and broke his back when he was 14, hence has to do special exercises before running, experts expect Jim Lightbody Jr. to equal the feats of his famed father...
...spite of war talk and a crisis in the British Cabinet, prices in stock-markets throughout the world rose hopefully last week. Commodities and bonds were also bullish. Even in Paris,where the news was supposed to be blackest, the Bourse displayed substantial advances in all classes of security...
Alfaro described Pan-Americanism as a peculiar sentiment of solidarity which has existed from the beginning of our international life and has survived through, and in spite of many disturbing events in the American republics...