Word: spites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will seek to buy up or at least control the tire manufacturers who supply original equipment. The logic of this is sound; the motor maker with a tire subsidiary cuts his costs. Ford Motor Co. is already making a great share of its tires at Highland Park, Mich., in spite of its cordial relations with Firestone Tire & Rubber. Goodyear, still controlled by Clarence Dillon, supplies Dodge Bros., which he also controls. Goodrich, while it remains under the domination of Bertram G. Work, will persist a unique entity. And it is not probable that U. S. Tire, which once sought...
...spite of the fact that the seating of the first year crews is usually pretty well settled by this late in the season the Freshman material this year has been of such a nature that it would have been difficult to pick any eight men who were outstanding. Even the squad which has just been chosen is by no means permanent and it is probable that there will be some reseating between now and spring vacation, when Coach Haines expects to select the eight men who will be kept practically intact as a crew throughout the remainder of the season...
...spite of the light head wind the two crews rowed well and the race was close until the last quarter mile, when De Normandie raised the beat so effectively that his crew forged ahead to a decisive victory...
...spite of the fact that the movies have yet to do right by Harvard, Harvard is now to be given a chance to do right by the movies. Some place between Stillman Infirmary and the Union there may be lurking a potential Gilbert, now wasting his time and his sex appeal in a scholastic atmosphere. The movies are out to get their...
...Hall's boat had given his eight a decisive margin. A gained gradually on crew C but at the finish was still trailing by a quarter length. Crews A, C, and D rowed a stroke between 30 and 33 while Norton's crew finished in second place in spite of the fact that he kept the beat between 26 and 30. The winning eight was seated as follows...