Word: spites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spite of this best and biggest trainpuller, however, the U. S. locomotive industry is now completing its poorest year in recent history. Locomotives are a drug on the market. During the first seven months of 1928, U. S. railroads placed orders for only 171 locomotives.-But Baldwin Locomotive Works alone can build 3,000 locomotives a year. The railroads are not in the market for any new equipment that they can get along without, and they can easily get along without new locomotives. For they have now in storage some 6,900 engines. Many of these engines are aged, inefficient...
...gloriously won, in spite of tactical errors at Shiloh, brutal human waste at Cold Harbor, Grant was unfortunately awarded the presidency. He knew nothing about politics or human character, neither of these imponderables being tangible matter of action. His chosen advisers were crooked or incompetent (the minister to England, a poker expert, taught the game to British peers, started a fad), his policies pathetic; but grimly he stuck to both. Scandals rivaling Teapot Dome culminated in the gold corner by Gould and Fisk, shrewd rascals who dazzled Grant with their powerful wealth, involved the honest dupe in fiasco...
Part of Harvard's good fortune on last November 24 is claimed by the Band to be due to the fact that H. L. Holland 1L, the drum-major, made three successive passes over Yale's goalposts without a mistake. Holland, however, in spite of this fine record, is abdicating in favor of one of several candidates whom he will recommend. One of these will be elected drum-major by the members of the Band. The results of this election will be announced about December...
...spite of the journal's warning that the value of their wages would be more than halved, workmen appeared every day at Mr. Ford's plantations, applied for and received jobs...
Gang War.* No gangster taking part in the crime-wave of the cinema has undergone a more amazing reformation than the one who, holding the rose his sweetheart has given him, is mowed down by pistol bullets while rescuing her innocent lover from the rival gang. Yet in spite of its frail conclusion and the inevitable echoes of the shots which, fired in the play Broadway, were heard round the world, this picture begins with a good idea: two reporters go to a dance-hall hostess who has the dope about the innocent boy's love affair with...