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Word: spites (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scotch these attacks, Ambassador Cravioto insinuated, last week, that they were made by Mme. Kollontay out of feminine spite "because General Calles has systematically ordered the expulsion of all foreign propagandists of communistic ideas from Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Spiteful Ministress? | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

...counted on the fingers of one hand. One man alone would probably be a unanimous choice, and that one is Thomas Hardy, an Olympian who lingers on, cloistered in the secrecy of an English garden. Beside him how does Miss Loos, how does even Mr. Galsworthy, in spite of his splendid achievements, stand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GENIUS IN THE ROUGH | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

...American college environment is the shrine of mob worship of molded standards. Its heroes are individuals who are still of the campus. Its inflexible axiom lets those who deviate suffer in the pillory of mob spite. In such an atmosphere confirmed anglophiles are only pitiful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ivy vs. Brick | 12/17/1927 | See Source »

...been found, though, in the legislative check up on the allegations of Admiral Magruder, that even if the United States were to build six or seven submarines a year for the next five years, this would be only "a fleet appropriate to out needs." In spite of the recent completion of the twin airplane carriers Saratoga and Lexington, the most modern vessels of their kind in the world, the United States is all of 69,000 tons behind the allotment of the disarmament conference...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONGRESS HITS THE DECK | 12/15/1927 | See Source »

...present", added Dr. Erickson, "the school is thriving in spite of the great difficulties--earthquakes, torrential rains and lack of equipment--against which it has had to contend. Several buildings are now under construction, and the boys' dormitory, is already accupied...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ERICKSON PINS HOPES FOR ALBANIAN GROWTH ON BETTER EDUCATION | 12/10/1927 | See Source »

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