Word: spites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spite of the fact that the Syracuse team had defeated the Dartmouth players, who beat Harvard, and were generally conceded to have a decided edge, the Crimson booters displayed a superiority in all departments of the game...
...debutantes they seem interested only in the ultimate tensile strength of the bond between body and soul in their daughters. The appeals so far advanced by Harvard authorities interested in preventing students in the two lower classes from forming entangling alliances have met with a rude neglect. In spite of the theory that college men should he allowed to produce their own salvation without supervision from above, a certain protection should still be allowed the younger of them from allurement that no longer tempts burnt children in the upper classes, Humanitarianism, even if unsupported by a common love of parents...
...Radio? Climbing whole points at a time, Radio soars from 234½ to an incredible 270. Who is pushing it? No one knows, and it suddenly tumbles back to 252, where it rests perilously at the tap of the final gong. General Motors lags, closes ¾ off, in spite of its new 150% stock dividend. Why? Perhaps too many shares for the pools to handle. General Electric gains 83½ points, keeps them. . . . Railroads are strong, may become market leaders when coppers and oils yield. Friday's turnover: 4,999,140 shares. . . . Three days: 14,931,140. Weary brokers...
...spirit of all the major sports, crew has always attracted a large number of men who row merely because they find it the most expedient and pleasant manner of keeping fit. If one needed proof of this statement it is amply to be found in the fact that in spite of there being nothing approaching an objective race during the fall season nearly three hundred men have pulled an oar in some crew during the weeks just now coming to a close. The informality of the University squad and the flexible number of possible class crews present an easy opportunity...
...trenchant sobs of his children, which now rend the air with renewed vigor. "Suffer we must for the cause of education, so long as Imbecilic editors control its destinies. Soon will come a change, and the latent craving of youth for knowledge will once more be aroused in spite of those who would stifle this yearning forever...