Word: spites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus popularly reviled Foreign Minister Nintchitch resigned. The long tottering cabinet of Premier Uzunovitch fell with him. All this occurred?in typical Balkan fashion?before the Italo-A1bania Treaty of Tirana had been registered with the League, as it soon will be, and in spite of vigorous Italian denials that it contains any military clauses whatever. A scalding teapot tempest brewed...
...Harvard victory was won in spite of the fact that R. L. Debevoise '29, brother of last year's University Captain, was missing from the lineup. Debevoise had previously played No. 4 on the team, but was temporarily out of the match with an injury. E. D. Pratt '27 from Team B took the place of J. L. Pool '28 at No. 5, who was moved up into Debevoise's position...
...President Eliot entered the College. He was enabled to give up Greek and specialize in mathematics during his Senior year, and he also "enjoyed special privileges in being admitted to the private laboratory of the young Professor of Chemistry, Josiah P. Cook." He payed special attention to declamation. In spite of difficulty with his eyes during his Junior year, he graduated the second scholar in his class...
...anti. English feeling, unfortunate though it be, is none the less vivid. There is absolutely no foundation for such a condition--unless one-accepts the Nathan arguments; officially the two English speaking countries were never so close as today. And yet continental travellers admit that German welcomes, in spite of the late war, are as warm or warmer than English. The explanation may lie in Mr. Nathan's expose of the national prejudices. It is strange, however, that shades of the Boston tea party should create eternal disturbance which even alliance in a World War should not destroy. The situation...
...tenets of dissimilar faiths, deeply as one may sympathize with them in their ambition to reach God in their own way. Advertising religion is at best an effort to further spiritual progress by materialistic mediums--and this latest attempt is unfortunately symbolical of the entire movement which, in spite of its being headed by the sincerest of men, is little more than an apology for a lick of real religious zeal on the part of the general public...