Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tempo is set in the first story, "The Brave Soldier and the Wicked Sorcerer" when the note of modern precision's victory over the ignorance and superstition of the past is struck. The young Red soldier returns gloriously to his village to marry his girl in spite of the extorting opposition of the sorcerer and hostility of the priest. He beats the sorcerer for his prediction of a baby with a hairy body and a long black tall, and justice is vigorously upheld when the latter's suit for damages is dismissed by the Soviet court because of his attempt...
Fact was that, in spite of his vague offers of truce and invitations to Messrs. Carlisle & Willkie, so far President Roosevelt had not even hinted a willingness to compromise his power policies on any ground acceptable to private powermen. And in the opinion of Washington ob- servers he was not likely to compromise unless Recession grew even blacker. The pressure from the Right wing of the Administration was heavy but his advisers on the Left wing urged him to hold out until after the major legal tests of the power program are decided. The Duke Power case (PWA grants...
...called out the local Ford assembly plant, the principal grievance being alleged discrimination against union members in rehiring, after the seasonal layoff for new models. The plant normally employs only 600 men at this time of year, was making only 60 cars per day before the strike. And in spite of mass picketing by 500 other C.I.O. unionists, the assembly line continued to roll, though at considerably reduced speed. The significant automobile labor news of the week was made not in St. Louis,, not in any motor plant but in the minds of U. A. W. leaders in and around...
Adult women resist infection by gonococci because their sex membranes are relatively impervious. Children have very little such protection. Germs work into their tissues where germicidal douches cannot reach. In spite of treatment the disease may last as long as five years. The cure for vaginitis is only four years old. In January 1934, at Yale. Dr. Robert Lewis took a hint from Dr. Edgar Allen, who found that female sex hormones toughened the vaginal mucosa of monkeys. Dr. Lewis gave eight infected children hypodermic doses of theelin, a sex hormone, and cured them in a few weeks...
Speaking as a "battle-scarred veteran" and out of a vast abyss of experience," Hutchins concluded that "it's bad enough to be an educator anyway. We can't tell whether our students succeed because of us or in spite of us." If they are successful "we take the credit and if they fall--they shouldn't have been admitted in the first place...