Word: spiteful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...negroes is estimated at more than 10,000. The negro problem in the South, and now, as never before, in the Middle West, is steadily advancing to the fore. With the perpetration in Omaha of the basest crimes by negroes, the escape of most of the criminals, in spite of police vigilance, and the mediocre and insufficient punishment administered by the courts, the outbreak of a lynching fever was only to be ex-expected. The writer does not apologize for the outbreak, but merely attempts to explain its cause...
...cuts will be made in the squad during the whole season, and less than an hour a day on the track will be required in preparing the runners. Coaches will be present at the track all afternoon making it possible for men to report for the workouts in spite of late laboratory sections or afternoon recitations...
...hopes to have the list more than 90 per cent. correct when it is issued. During the three months intervening between sending out the proof sheets and going to press changes took place at the rate of more than 2,000 a month, and it is expected that in spite of the most painstaking work more than three thousand addresses will be out of date when the directory is issued. The difficulty is increased by the fact that 1,551 men are now carried on the records as lost, no record of their whereabouts or occupation being available. These names...
...diametrically opposite records will face each other at New Haven. The Yale team, with a nucleus from last year's unbeaten nine, was expected to have another championship season. Its three early victories and the rise of a new star pitcher bade fair to fulfill this prophecy. But, in spite of its favorable start, the Eli craft has had a rocky voyage. A long losing streak, in which the pitching hope was twice driven from the box, has spread a cloud of gloom over Yale's great expectations...
...spite of the fact that the aeroplane carrying the two aviators met with adversity a short distance off the coast of Ireland, the greatest part of the broad Atlantic was successfully crossed. Although we should liked to have seen the American Navy carry off the honor of first accomplishing the almost incredible flight, we hope that the judges of the "London Daily Mail" transatlantic contests will recognize the momentous significance of being pioneers in such a hazardous enterprise, and award the Australian aviators the $50,000 which they deserve for virtually accomplishing the tremendous task they undertook...