Word: spites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...North Carolina Supreme Court (1833-1844), friend of Webster and Clay-and not for his later kinsman, onetime (1875-76) Governor William Gaston of Massachusetts, as stated by TIME, April 8. Carolina's Judge Gaston, for his character and learning, was elected to the bench in spite of a provision of the State Constitution then barring Roman Catholics from public office...
Citizen Calvin Coolidge, in spite of himself, was back in the news last week. The New York Evening Post advertised and republished his article on national defense. The National Geographic Society elected him a director. And he went trout-fishing in Connecticut without a license...
Through Different Eyes (Fox). When the jury decides that Edmund Lowe was the fellow who killed Warner Baxter, a young girl jumps up in the courtroom and tells what really happened. In spite of this framework, the courtroom atmosphere is pretty real and the story depends enough on character to interest its actors. Best shot: mixed bridge in the Manning's livingroom...
...scientific study. Chief among these would seem to be an extension of the time during which the college laboratories are open to undergraduates. The Widener Library is at the disposal of all members of the University for a much larger part of the day than are the laboratories in spite of the fact that its facilities are less essential to continued work. Books may be taken from the library for use during the hours in which it is closed, but when a laboratory shuts its doors the work going on within can not be taken home in the student...
...spite of what seemed to be overwhelming opposition, and a flood of derogatory comments, which is gradually taking on a much more even and less impetuous flow, the Bolshevists have maintained their control in Russia for eleven years, and bid fair to continue as many more. Whether Communism has held its own along with the Bolshevist party is a much more doubtful question, and those capitalists who had most to fear from it and were most active in their attacks against it, are already beginning to hope that by a gradual process of change Russia will slip back to capitalism...