Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slept with a handsome swimming instructor who "smelt like a spaniel that's just had a bath," brooded over missing out on a rich, titled Englishman. The Senator's sorrows were bad arteries, a dipsomaniac sister. President Winthrop's "New Age" amateurs swarming over Washington. In spite of the perfect April weather he got to his office in a fit of the blues, moped through the morning over the vanished glories of his past, looked sadly at his trout flies...
Andover, in spite of six substitutions, played errorless ball, while the Freshmen, with one substitution, garnered three errors. Heavy sticker Peters, Andover second baseman, led the batting with three out of four; Bill Wood, Yardling shortstop, collected two for three, and Charlie Lutz, first sacker, took long distance honors with a triple in the fifth. AB R H PO A E McPherson, cf 4 0 0 0 1 1 Lutz, 1b 5 1 2 8 0 0 Fulton, c 5 0 0 8 0 1 Macdonald, rf 2 0 1 2 0 0 Wood...
Roughly equal numbers of the particles bearing positive and negative charges have been observed, he said, in spite of earlier erroneous press reports that only negative ones exist...
...spite of sweeping the first three singles matches, the Yardling netmen lost to the University Graduates five to seven. Outstanding among the afternoon's matches was the defeat of Thackera by John G. Palfrey...
...Department's watches are as variegated as they are numerous, including electric clocks, a vacuum clock, pendulum clocks, and two chronometers. Last week several of them saw action for the first time in two years, in spite of the prevailing confusion among Astronomy 1 students concerning Sidereal Time, Greenwich Civil, Local Apparent, Greenwich Apparent, and Mean Time...