Word: spites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spain recognizes in her greatest best seller, Vincente Blasco Ibaņez, a natural genius of vivid, soaring imagination, of exceptional descriptive talent, albeit unreliable in history, while his loose, inaccurate style has prevented him, in spite of all good will (I write advisedly), from admission to the Spanish Academy of Letters...
...spite of the fact that Harvard was founded as a theological college, that department shows steady decrease in numbers, while the Business School is rapidly growing...
...must visualize war as coming suddenly without our desire or expectation and in spite of every course of action to avoid it. Our maximum effort will be demanded speedily. If this requires the impossible, it must be remembered that war is a game of impossibilities...
...sophisticated manner. This only makes it harder for primitive Hula to capture the cold Englishman engineer who shaves every day, even in the jungle. To add to her difficulties, the thin-lipped Nordic already has a wife, who refuses a divorce. The artless child overcomes all these obstacles, in spite of the fact that until the last reel, she wears no Parisian gowns but appears only on horseback, in the jungle swimming pool, in a hula custume, or (when her dog scampers into the Englishman's room and she gives chase) in a kimono. Divorce is forthcoming when...
...when they disappear, when no trace of them is found for many years. Rev. Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge of Philadelphia, stated clerk of the General Assembly, announced last week that the church had put the names of 67,060 of its members on the suspended list last year. In spite of this, the number of communicants enrolled was the largest the church has known, the donations per person the most generous yet recorded...