Word: spiteful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Competition in Geneva. Now an earnest, black-eyed boy who still likes to tinker with machines "for amuse myself," he hopes to stay in the U.S. He is not nervous before U.S. audiences ("It is not a good play, if your hands are trembling," he says sensibly). But in spite of the critics' plaudits at his Manhattan debut, he thinks he has a long way to go to please them permanently: "I must work and work," says he. "One is never ready...
...interesting to note that the seven Roman Catholics in the class shared these general ideas. They knew no more about their religion than the rest, in spite of the popular myth that 'at least the Catholics know what they believe...
...wanted and had to maintain Krupp, in spite of all opposition, as an armament plant for the future, even if in camouflaged form." In these words, in 1941, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach told how his giant munitions trust had helped arm the Nazis. For this and other brags and deeds, the U.S. put Krupp high up on its war criminals list...
...overall grade of 99 plus was the best ever made at Mercersburg Academy. In spite of some undetermined ailment that kept him in & out of the infirmary, he got through Williams College with a record that led Columbia University's famed Philosopher John Dewey to take him on as a teaching assistant. He took a walk with Psychologist William James, remembers just one comment: "I have a brother [Henry] who writes novels, and he used to be a very good writer, too, but since he got lazy and began dictating, his style has become groping and repetitious...
Amidst the scramble over choice of field of concentration, there stands in a situation by no means critical but nevertheless of concern to nearly half of Harvard's pre-medical students, the field of Biochemical Sciences. In spite of excellent and well-organized tutorial, Biochemical Sciences, which exists as field but not a department, on a whole is so loose and ill-defined that an increasing number of students are changing to Biology or Chemistry...