Word: spites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year age today, Harvard Corporation issued a statement explaining its decision to retain, in spite of their exercise of the privilege under the Fifth Amendment, Professor Wendell H. Furry, Associate Professor Helen Deane Markham, and Leon J. Kamin (a Teaching Fellow). In their first appearances before Congressional Committees investigating Communist activities these three teachers had refused, on the ground that their answers would tend to incriminate them, to reply to questions regarding membership in the Communist Party...
Rooms of Eliot's residents were searched last year after repeated thefts of undergarments and other personal belongings continued in spite of administration warnings. Although the articles were not found, the thefts decreased after the search, but recently began to increase again...
...immensely important factor which has been all too often ignored in recent years seems at last to have come into its own on Capitol Hill," pontificated the Times. "American opinion, in spite of the cold war, in spite of its profound antiCommunism, is still firmly pacific, and, far from straining at the leash, will fight only when all reasonable chances of negotiation have failed. Peace is still, as in Jefferson's day, the American people's passion . . . By rejecting premature commitments in Indo-China, public opinion has overtaken the party cries...
Gordon W. Allport '19, professor of Psychology, who has just published a book on "The Nature of Prejudice," said that "the immediate effect of the decision will be an appreciable and much needed improvement in the moral stock of the United States throughout the world. In spite of temporary flurries of protest," Allport remarked, "the South will soon fall in the line because the decision coincides with its conscience...
Family Affair. In Salem, Mass., when two masked bandits went into the Surrette Storage Battery Co., Bookkeeper Josephine Russell recognized her brother-in-law in spite of his mask, later notified police, who nabbed both...