Word: spites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Three Season" by Mr. Parker is a prolonged lyric in decasyllabic rymed double quatrains, which, in spite of its occasional cliches and vaguely tenuous theme, is well sustained and successful...
...despair of educational leaders for the last decade. Yet this may not be the whole story. If the pressure remained the same, there are still many colleges in the country that could do with a greater abundance of students, and at Harvard each Freshman class outnumbers its predecessor in spite of the increasing rigor of entrance requirements...
...spite of the ratification of the Sunday Sports amendment by a vote of three to one in the City of Boston, the Common Council has just tabled a resolution to give effect to the mandate of the people as expressed at the polls. In Massachusetts, Blue Laws have always been in style, and the country members of the legislature have until this year succeeded in upholding the morals of the cities at least one day a week. But on November 6, by means of an initiative petition, the people of the state were at last able to declare their will...
...myself. When I reached Peking, I gave notice to the Chinese authorities of what I had left on the spot. A mission was sent and brought of Peking the rest of the manuscripts; a list of these was then published and I have been glad to see that, in spite of the haste with which I had proceeded, there was only one important text, a Manichaean treatise in Chinese, which had escaped my attention...
...Cosmo Gordon Lang, 64, the 79th successor to St. Augustine as Archbishop of Canterbury, and thus ecclesiastical head of the Church of England, with royal pomp and circumstance in the historic cathedral of his See. Long intimate friend, honorary chaplain of Queen Victoria, persistent and smiling bachelor in spite of her advice to marry, Dr. Lang was most recently Archbishop of York...