Word: spites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President issued the traditional Thanksgiving Day proclamation, in spite of a telegram from the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism urging him to refrain. Said...
...spite of the importance attached to Senator Reed's and Editor Thomas H. Adams' investigations (TIME, Oct. 18), the Klan in Indiana is little more than a political hangover which reminds Republicans how bad they were the ( night before. The Klanish horde of 400,000 in 1923 and 1924 has now dwindled to some 17,000 faithful morons. The principal result of the investigations seems to have been to crystallize resentment against Senator Watson, hitherto a Republican power and presidential possibility. He is described by Frank R. Kent, able correspondent of the Democratic Baltimore Sun, in no mild...
...nuclear group of 500 eaters, declared to be essential to the success of any Common dining hall by the Comptroller's Office, can be recruited from a roving force of 6000. The Harvard Union has demonstrated that a University Dining hall based on voluntary attendance can succeed in spite of cafeteria competition. The Union attracts only a portion of the nomad horde; the majority wanders, at large inadequately and irregularly food...
...spite of the fact that the price of tickets to the "Big Three" football games was advanced considerably this fall, there has been no appreciable decrease in the number of individual applications to three of the most representative contests on the Crimson's schedule, those with Dartmouth, Princeton, and Yale...
...spite of his natural indignation, however, he continued a liberal contributor to Harvard during the final years of his life, and left to it the bequest above mentioned, "to be appropriated toward the endowing of a profesor of law, or a profesor of physic and anatomy, whichever the Corporation and Overseers of the College shall judge best for its benefit: and they shall have full power to sell said lands and put the money out to interest, the income whereof shall be for the aforesaid purpose." It was not until 1815 that the College authorities deemed it wise to establish...