Word: spites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard does need a new gymnasium, and she needs a library and a host of other things; Harvard has not enough money to take proper care of the buildings she now has. . . . Harvard has no fairy godmother to slip round millions into her hands every other month. Yet in spite of this she seems to get on pretty well, staying near the head of the procession for the past three hundred years. . . . Whenever Harvard needed anything in the years gone by, a friend has always been found in the end. . . . We do not expect a new gymnasium for some time...
...benighted Jack boarded the train, having flown in hot pursuit of his runaway wife. Hugely flattered, she remembered to be cross with him; pitched promptly into the political battle, and continued hostilities through and in spite of another of those French railway accidents. Her father-in-law, emerging from a long faint, marveled that she should so tenderly minister to his wounds, the while brutally warring with his son. This modern generation-impossible that they should one moment barely escape death, and the next moment resume their petty quarrel. Had they no nerves, no emotions...
...many courses to date, the meaning of the word "substitution" has not been fully carried out. In spite of the example of last year, volumes of reading have been prescribed, covering material sometimes vastly more extensive than could be accomplished in the six lectures which formerly were held during the corresponding two weeks. Such an increase in the assignments can hardly fail to bring with it unfortunate results: the work is performed in a more superficial manner which does not produce the same lasting value, and when examinations finally set in, the student at once feels the strain which...
...other colleges, Stoughton and Massachusetts were in utmost danger. They caught fire numerous times, and could not have been saved by all the help that the town could afford, had it not been for the assistance of the Gentlemen of the General Court. His Excellency the Governor, who is spite of the rigor of the weather was most active in exerting himself in supplying the town engines with water which had to be fetched from a distance, the two college pumps being then rendered useless...
Pointing out that in spite of their great salaries many money-hungry cinemactors have ways of making money besides acting. Critic Regina Cannon (New York American) listed the extra-studio businesses of various stars: John Gilbert, Antonio Moreno, Thomas Meighan-financing real estate developments; Mary Pickford- banking; Karl Dane-raising chickens; Chester Conklin-raising turkeys; Bessie Love-dairy farming; Lon Chaney-part-ownership in a plumbing company; Constance Talmadge-manufacturing cold cream; Lew Cody-automobile agency and part-ownership in a barber shop; Conrad Nagel and Jack Holt-stockyards at Fresno, Calif.; Renee Adorée-French restaurant...