Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George Carens spoke for a moment and said he had picked Army 20-13 over Yale, in spite of the fact that the West Point captain, Isbell, strained his elbow getting on a bus last night and will be out of the game...
...hall to order ham & eggs; refused a pile of Pittsburgh Post-Gazettes offered by William Herman Mylander, Washington representative of the Paul Block paper, just in case Mr. Justice Black had not read the expose of his Klan activities in the paper of their origin; failed to recognize in spite of his 10 gal. hat Post-Gazette Reporter Ray Sprigle who had written the series; and retired to break his fast with Editor Max Lerner of the Nation, which had just received a demand for retraction from Publisher Block's attorney because it had accused Mr. Block...
...spite of these defects, "They Gave Him a Gun" is worth seeing but should be placed in the upper brackets of second rate films...
...Conant. Valuable as his services were to Harvard, he was much more than that. He was more than a leading citizen of Boston and of Massachusetts, he was a leading citizen of the whole country. He was called in to give invaluable advice on trying international problems. In spite of his eminence, his greatest attribute was his capacity for warm personal friendship and his willingness always to help in any situation...
Jerome D. Greene '96: "Mr. Perkins' career indicates the public spirit which chaaracterized his whole life, but it was a public spirit without the slightest pretension. In spite of a background and business activity that identified him with conservative interests, he was a man of truly liberal spirit, and in no field of his activity was this more manifest than in his devoted service to the University as a member of the Corporation. He gave his complete support to the liberal policies of the University, including its maintenance of academic freedom under Presidents Eliot, Lowell, and Conant. In the counsels...