Word: spiteful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that Marx's main assumptions were wrong. He assumed, for example, that the spectacular poverty of industrial workers of his day would spread and deepen. The capitalist philosophers, who predicted rising living standards, were right. A hundred years after the Manifesto, however, the class struggle is sharper in spite of the fact that the living standard of the "exploited classes" is almost everywhere higher than it has ever been...
...spite of Walton's strict beliefs, the George School is as informal as a public high school. The boys dress in brightly colored sweaters, the girls have adopted the New Look. Students and teachers eat and work and worship together; and they all attend informal dances on Saturday night. Students of other faiths make up about half of George's enrollment...
...critics generally agreed that the opera was a success, but in spite of the Met's staging...
...spite of the plainly unfriendly attitude from meteorological quarters, however, the Carnival started an scheduled yesterday, with a Harvard Band concert and a campus-wide series of hayrides...
...students realize, too, that despite Dr. Arlie V. Bock's yearly disjoiner, intensive cramming just before an examination will often produce a much better mark for a quick-minded student than long hours earlier in the term. The fact that the Social Relations Department, in spite of expert knowledge in the field and constant experimentation, has been unable to approach perfection of method is an interesting proof of the difficulties of testing...