Word: spites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...screen the backgrounds of students coming into the institution, and the result has been a singularly unsuited group of men since the war at the institution to participate in athletics. One of them ... is now serving a term of one to 20 years for armed robbery." But, in spite of the scandal, in the two months before sentence was actually passed, McCue was out there on the Western Illinois gridiron, complete with scholarship and the personal approval of President...
Where small-town papers once focused exclusively on Mrs. Murphy, the multiplying middleweights have built circulation with the worldwide coverage for which readers formerly turned to metropolitan dailies. Many newspapers are prospering in spite of almost irresponsible mediocrity. But in a comparative survey last week, TIME correspondents across the U.S. found that in a majority of cases top national and international stories got substantially the same play in big cities and small. The middle-tier papers have also been quick to seize on such technological advances as color printing, tele-typesetters and cheap, fast methods that enable them...
...Coach Munro's Yardlings can fulfill their marksmanship potential and grab a moderate share of rebounds they should be able to compile a winning record in spite of their relatively diminutive basketball size...
...spite of this difficult adjustment, the transfer usually has enough intelligence and maturity to master his new environment. The change is not made immediately, however. As Master Finley says, "Socially these people have a much harder time of it. Freshmen meet many of their friends brushing their teeth in the comunal bathrooms of their freshman dorms. Transfers do not have the social opportunities of the freshman year...
...cold war will continue on an "economic, political and propaganda level," Herter forecast, despite unanimous opposition to open warfare. In spite of this, he charged, the Democrats have repeatedly slashed the foreign aid plans of the Eisenhower administration. The blame must rest with southern Democrats who have lost interest in foreign export markets because of Democrat-backed federal parity supports, he explained...