Word: spites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some small percentage of the uninvited guests systematically frisk the parked automobiles; others aid lost articles in staying lost perpetually, in spite of the efforts of the Lost and Found Department; other little magicians prove that the hand is quicker than the eye when exploring the pockets of the fallen devotees of Bacchus; and still others persist in destroying the pleasure of the game for those who find that one of these soiled ragamuffins has usurped a neighboring seat...
...spite of the acknowledged improvement of the course it is still one which the sub-freshman will do well to take steps to avoid. His chances of getting one of the really good section men are not great, and it would be well if the whisper still flew about the preparatory school quadrangles that seventy-five percent in English Cp. 4 outclasses ninety-five in any other subject as far as actual value received is concerned...
...wish to be, much less to appear to be, a collegian. In his own opinion, he and the man of the world are as like as two peas. He abhors the collegiate; and if he is so, there is this extenuating circumstance in his favor: He is so in spite of himself...
...THIS IS MY PARTY!" he roared when Senators Shortridge, Robinson (of Arkansas) and Allen tried to run the hearing in an orderly way. In spite of them he played a loud, smart game of personage-baiting, dragging one famed figure after another into his melodramatic past...
Thirty-seven Army players substituted for each other so fast you couldn't tell who was in, but obviously Gettysburg was out, in spite of its one touchdown, Army 33, Gettysburg...