Word: spites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...money, not for spite, not for hate. They killed him as they might kill a spider or a fly, for the experience. They killed him because they were made that way. Because somewhere in the infinite processes that go to the making up of the boy or the man, something slipped...
...Merck & Co.'s fourth quarter net increased from 45? to 51? a share, and profits for the whole year advanced 14%. CJ Reynolds Metals Co. brought in 88? a share in the fourth quarter v. 85? in 1956, but profits for the year dropped 8% in spite of record sales...
...undergraduates, and only three students bothered to enroll. Lovett no sooner took over the course than its fame began to spread. He allowed his students to smoke and sip Cokes in class, insisted on only one rule: "If you must sleep, do it in a dignified position." But in spite of such informality, "Cokes and Smokes" proved to hundreds of students that the study of religion could be a rigorous and fascinating intellectual discipline...
...kindly man, who meant and did well for the university in his own way. The biennial appropriations zoomed from $22 million to almost $38 million; faculty salaries rose an average 28%, research grants and contracts quadrupled, and a sizable new building program was begun. But in spite of all these accomplishments, Henry Schmitz's administration made some major bloopers...
...temperature inside the Explorer has been fairly moderate in spite of the contrast between the heat of sunlight and the intense cold in the shadow of the earth. It has ranged from 50° to 85° F., about the spread of temperature of an average spring day in the Southwest...