Word: spiteful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campus of Jefferson Military College near Natchez, Miss, stands a monument inscribed: "Aaron Burr tried . . . under these oaks, 1807; Andrew Jackson camped here, 1812-1815; Jefferson Davis a student here, 1815; John James Audubon taught here, 1822; Lafayette reviewed cadets, 1825." But in spite of its historic past, Jefferson Military College had fallen on hard times. Classroom walls were peeling ; desks were worn beyond repair. There were hardly enough students (48) in its high-school classes to keep the place going. Then, a few weeks ago, along came Judge George W. Armstrong...
Last week in Nacogdoches, Texas (pop. 11,700) more than 4,000 delegates to the interdenominational Tri-State (Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas) Singing Convention were still challenging the devil's priority. In spite of heavy rains, sticky red clay roads and a football game across the way, they crowded into the white frame gymnasium at Stephen Austin State Teachers College. There for two straight days they kept the rafters ringing with gospel jazz, gospel hillbilly ballads, gospel blues...
...spite of such failings, gramicidin touched off a chain reaction. Dubos announced its discovery in 1939. A group of British researchers heard about it and recalled Alexander Fleming's Penicillium notatum. The substance it secreted is penicillin. Ripples of excitement spread through the world's biological laboratories...
...spite of its limitations, "An Evening of Shaw" is still worth seeing. The production is competent, if not greatly inspired; and Shaw, competently rendered, is a treat in itself...
...spite of this custom, the Michigan Daily yesterday printed an article which claimed that Army went out of its way to inure key Wolverine players and in general performed in an illegal and unsportsmanlike fashion in the recent meeting of the schools. It further stated that Army repeated its immoral performances against Harvard, citing the injuries to Charley Roche and or Jimmy Noonan as evidence. Here is precisely what the Daily said...