Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...investigate Jersey City's Cuse. "Such an inquiry," added this Senator, "should cover more than this Vimalert affair. We ought to find out how much material other Americans have been sending to the Fascists as well as to the Loyalists in Spain."- Most armorers agree that in spite of the Arms & Munitions Control Office, small shipments of war material have constantly seeped illegally...
...Mike Cowles saw no reason why Look should not find a lower, broader field as a picture monthly. He put up $300.000 of his own and his brother's money to find out if he was right. Friends like Fred Bohen came in for $200,000 more. In spite of his big circulation plans (400.000 first issue). Publisher Cowles announced that, for the present, Look would solicit no advertising. To tradepapers he announced that Look would have "reader interest for yourself, for your wife, for your private secretary, for your office boy." To the public he merely stated that...
...some of the stores, are people whose advice helps many a harassed youth find himself. However, this delicate matter of helping young men through a difficult period should properly be left in the hand of the college of which the young men are members. The adviser system, in spite of attempts to improve it, is still a ghastly failure. With this in view, Phillips Brooks House is nurturing in the collective mind of its undergraduate and graduate boards an idea which it is to be hoped will soon become a reality...
Training tables will be continued for Varsity teams, it was voted unanimously at the coaches' monthly meeting yesterday morning, in spite of a number of complaints by undergraduates on the various teams...
...sentiment-hating public is not easy. At first Miss Jerome starts off on the wrong foot by encouraging the audience to laugh at the florid language, and then later depending on it to grasp the drama when the same language is used in tense moments. But in spite of these inconsistencies, which are gradually being eliminated, "Jane Eyre" is an admirable production and one that should please New York almost as much as Boston...