Word: spites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letter to the HYRC Wang commented, "The Penn meeting was also a success in spite of the number of eggs wasted by some foolish undergraduates." He also received cool reception in his other Ivy League appearances at Columbia and Dartmouth...
...Vivian Ernest Fuchs, is battling toward the air-supplied U.S. base at the South Pole, and will probably get there in a few more days. Geologist Fuchs, lean veteran of 30 years of scientific exploration in Greenland, Africa and Antarctica, has announced that he intends to press on, in spite of the threat of worsening weather, and hopes to reach Scott Station on the Ross Sea about March 9. If he crosses Antarctica from sea to sea, he will have accomplished what the great explorer Ernest Henry Shackleton called the "last grand land journey left...
...lavender prose, takes place in fairyland, which is reached by springing lightly off Notre Dame de Paris. The heroine, for reasons probably most obvious to a 14-year-old girl bent on writing a naughty novel, is a nude model. Nevertheless, she remains pure to the end in spite of the blandishments of satyrs and other fairyland charmers: "His eyes were like whirls of black gas. Her knees sank. Her stomach melted. His hand was held out toward...
King Hussein of Jordan for outlasting the year-if he outlasts it-in spite of the warm friendship of his Arab allies and the well-meant advice of John Foster Dulles...
...said slyly: "If Mr. Silverman will take good care of his theaters and play the best pictures available, keeping in mind how good they are rather than how cheaply he can get them, I am sure that he will not go out of business." Apparently just as sure, in spite of his cries of wolf, Alarmist Silverman went ahead with plans to help back a $6,000,000 Old Testament movie epic called Solomon and Sheba...