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Word: spites (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...England the masterwork of Stone Age men is getting long-needed maintenance, using the most modern methods. In spite of clamor from indignant traditionalists, Britain's Ministry of Works intends to reerect one of the massive trilithons (three-stone arches) of prehistoric Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain. It fell in 1797 after staying upright for perhaps 3,000 years, and there are accurate drawings that show it unfallen. The ministry will not reerect other trilithons that fell in Roman times or earlier, but it sees nothing false about restoring Stonehenge to its 18th century condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

Stephane R. Salomon '58 charged the mysterious caller with "sheer vengeful spite" and an attempt to "create confusion and panic...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Phony Caller Plagues HSA Plane Flight | 4/25/1958 | See Source »

Nevertheless, in spite of its functional defects, Signet serves a unique and invaluable purpose in being the only intellectual social society at Harvard. The College has a reputation based upon its outstanding academic record, yet there is almost no official recognition of individual academic achievements. The University supports a club for varsity athletes, and the other clubs

Author: By Paul A. Buttenwieser, | Title: The Transformation of Signet | 4/25/1958 | See Source »

...Huxley stories in the collection bring out the spite without heat that is his peculiar intellectual climate. If there is one central virtue in his art it is that his creatures have the capacity to explain themselves: the central defect is that they have the compulsion to explain themselves away. Huxley rarely creates a character that he does not destroy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Antic Antiques | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

...fore-checking made it difficult for the varsity to clear the ball from the defensive zone, in spite of goalie Dick MacKinnon's fine assistance. Once, he carried the ball past the midfield stripe...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Lacrosse Team Beaten by Cornell; Attack Ineffective in 7 to 2 Defeat | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

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