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Word: spiteful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Certainly the score feast proved that even the Ivy League, with its strict rules against importing professional players, can show a sparkling brand of football. In spite of traditional lassitude, little football here worship in the stands, and too many three-hour labs for the players, the raw material under these Paris fashion pants can be polished into a highly efficient machine...

Author: By John Shortlidge, | Title: Press Goes Overboard On Crimson | 10/6/1948 | See Source »

...spite of the fact that individual House kitchens cook and prepare as many items as possible, the main kitchen must still do the bulk of the work for five Houses. Through underground tunnels the cooked food, kept hot in special manually operated trucks, is trundled with dispatch to the various dinning halls, making its longest run Leverett, House--in only eight minutes, including the elevator ride at the other...

Author: By E. P. H., | Title: Central Kitchen: all that meat and potatoes too | 10/5/1948 | See Source »

After a great deal of angry thought, Billie decided-as she always did during their 18 turbulent years of marriage-that she did not want a divorce. "In spite of everything, I knew that Flo loved me." She sent for him, and a reconciliation scene followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Busy Life | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...general more interested in another cluster than in ending the war, are both good. And James Whitmore, as a sergeant and master at the delicate art of insulting officers without any personal danger, just about walks off with the show. The direction of John O'Shaughnessy, in spite (and because) of what you've read above is really the best thing in the play. It was a very difficult job and he has done it very well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Command Decision" | 10/2/1948 | See Source »

...spite of this the University's crew of secretaries consistently do an astounding job of staying cool, calm, efficient, polite, and genial. Hats, off gentlemen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: To the Secretaries | 10/1/1948 | See Source »

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