Word: spites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wren. Its sponsors chose the most explosive hour possible. Thus, the infamous Jenny hurled the stool (see cut) and cried: "How dare you to say 'mass' to my lug [ear]?" The dean beat a hasty retreat, but Jenny's signal touched off a riot. In spite of chastising Jenny and her drastic action, Hannas today are Presbyterians...
...noted that in spite of greatly expand areas of learning it would continue to be possible to respect and learn something of the "unknown provinces" beyond one's individual field. He emphasized this especially in regard to differences between the sciences and the humanities...
...spite of all the pressures. Lublin never really surrendered to the Red regime. It taught Greek, Latin, French, German and English-but not a word of Russian. It was for a time the only university to offer sociology, the only place to teach economics that was not, as one professor puts it, "all class struggle and the dictatorship of the proletariat." Though cautious, many professors found ways to get around the Communists...
...status-of-forces agreements, in spite of the ruckus over Specialist Third Class Girard in Japan, are working out amazingly well. Status-of-forces agreements have contributed in six years of steady growth toward easing the tensions between allies, and have added up to a remarkable good-sense show of international justice from which the U.S. and its allies alike have benefited. One Girard case provides an uproar in the U.S. and Japan, for example, but 5,544 other U.S.-Japanese cases that came up last year worked out smoothly. Over a longer term, fewer than half a dozen...
...spite of the official University claim that a 'delicate balance exists between the University and the College, we have not found this balance..." the Student Council reported...