Search Details

Word: spites (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...spite of Sputnik, etc., I still think the man is Dr. Jonas Salk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 11, 1957 | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

Shue said he felt that, in spite of Princeton's highly-rated power, the game would be a close one. Kickoff time is 10:30 a.m., at the Business School Field...

Author: By Walter E. Wilson, | Title: Soccer Varsity Rates Underdog In Last Home Game for Seniors | 11/9/1957 | See Source »

Wolfe wrote hime in 1921 that a commercial producer had approached him to write a play. "Well, I will take one more chance and give him what he wants, in spite of the fact that Professor Baker will throw up his hands and say that I have 'prostituted my art' and so on, when...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: George Pierce Baker: Prism for Genius | 11/6/1957 | See Source »

Grandpa Jones and Hank Snow are admittedly inferior to Thomas L. Thomas, and "The Drunkard's Song" may not equal the musical and aesthetic excellence of "Auf dem Wasser du singer." Either in spite of this, or because of this, however, hillbilly music remains popular at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hillbilly Music | 11/5/1957 | See Source »

...those poodle-wool sideburns? For two years, lovers of peace, quiet and a less epileptic kind of minstrelsy have waited for Elvis Presley and the adenoidal art form, rock 'n' roll, to fade. But knowledgeable disk jockeys and trade bulletins offer such purists little hope. In spite of previously noted tremors, last week rock 'n' roll looked solid as Gibraltar, and Elvis-with a new stomp-and-holler hit, Jailhouse Rock (RCA Victor)- was perched right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Rock Is Solid | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

Previous | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | Next