Word: spiteful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of intimations to the contrary, the coming Smoker should be a lusty replica of its pre-war counterpart, not a colorless compromise reminiscent of short-shrift USO combos. The tremendous carnivals of the past that tried to "make Daniel Boones of Freshmen" and worried lost they "shock the boys," belong with gate-welding, goldfish gulpings, and other rah-rah episodes now practically non-existent. It is up to the Freshman Class to conjure up a Smoker so well-rounded with frolic and so fully-packed with talent that the air will be blue for days...
...picket lines around the six Chicago dailies. The publishers promised they would print anyway, by photoengraving. The papers began a frantic scramble to hire typists. The Sun hired 80 and set up day and night shifts. All the papers buckled down to give Chicago its daily news, in spite of the strike...
...Sproul Harvard is "an extraordinary institution because in spite of its great age and prestige it still has young ideas. If Harvard were stuck in a rut it would be a terrible thing for American education. "He continually senses the" enormous stimulation which comes from having a liberal, progressive institution in a position of respect such as yours...
Soldiers Field gridirons are quiet these days, equipment has been cleaned and hung away for another year, and nothing remains of the defunet House football season but the choice of an eleven-man unit which approximates the Intramural coach's ideal. In spite of the clean sweep of all opposition by the Eliot powerhouse, individual excellence was well scattered through the eight other outfits, with both Kirkland and Leverett placing three players on the first eleven...
...spite of such showmanship, the Radio Doctor enjoys high standing in his profession; a B.M.A. colleague admits that no physician in the country has done more for preventive medicine than Dr. Hill and his avuncular broadcasts. Dr. Hill himself has a simple explanation for his huge popularity: his talks are based on the solid truism that people are more interested in disease than in health. Says he: "If I want to discuss the circulation, I start by mentioning varicose veins. I know then that I'll have the sympathetic ear of most...