Word: spites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spite of some weakness in organization, Damn Yankees is by far the best musical that Boston has seen in a long time. And if the prices seem a little steep, the show makes enough noise so that peanut heaven at the Shubert isn't half...
Perry was placed by Aiken on equal footing with John Dewey as "the most important American liberal philosophers," in spite of their differences and Dewey's comparatively greater popularity...
...time a citizen of none. He was Russian until the Bolshevik revolt, legally Latvian until 1941 when Latvia was annexed. Then he became German where his family had emigrated some time before as their familial holdings had been confiscated. But, says Professor von Blanckenhagen, scholarship is universal. "In spite of national difference, what good scholars have in common is much more important than the differences in their cultural background." He feels himself very much of an American, and he says, though he is overly modest about his command of the language, that he finds English a happier means to express...
...spite of the report-and the fact that fire broke out in one school in January-Boss McCoy's successors firmly opposed closing the schools. Mayor Lawrence A. McCarthy complained of foreigners poking into Pawtucket's business, and suggested darkly that if this sort of thing went on, there would soon be demands to tear down every school building in the state more than 50 years old. Not until the state board of education finally approved a compromise did McCarthy & Co. give up. Last week the order went out to close nine schools and to put the displaced...
...Department of Agriculture does not think that the fire ants can be eradicated. They are too well established, and they live in forests and wastelands as well as in settled areas. No natural enemies have been found that can be imported to prey upon them. In spite of quarantines that may be declared against them, the ants will probably spread as far as climate will permit, perhaps as far north as southern Pennsylvania. But they can be checked in towns, fields and pastures by proper poisoning methods. This can be expensive. Said one disgruntled householder in Montgomery, Ala. last week...