Word: spites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arabia gets an estimated 85% of its income from oil (some $290 million in 1955). On the other hand, as one old Middle East hand grumbled last week, "You can never really depend on the Arabs' not hurting themselves. They're always biting off their nose to spite their face...
...Gratia Artis. In Louth. England, Office Worker Gordon Goddard was fined $14 and costs for counterfeiting, in spite of his barrister's explanation that he forged ?5 notes because they "presented a challenge to him as an artist...
...spite of the easygoing luncheon chatter that day in 1955. the four Chicago educators were obviously worried. How, they wanted to know, could the city's colleges and universities, already jammed with 100,000 students, take care of the double enrollment expected by 1970? Then John W. Taylor, onetime president of the University of Louisville and now executive director of Chicago's new educational TV station, began to outline a plan. Though no city had ever tried it. Taylor's three companions-Chancellor Lawrence Kimpton of the University of Chicago, President John Rettaliata of the Illinois Institute...
When Boatswain Wookey was lowered into the water, he was breathing ordinary air, but when he reached 40 ft., the pump began supplying a mixture of oxygen (8.5 parts) and helium (91.5 parts). Going down was comparatively easy. In spite of the 273 Ibs. of pressure on every square inch of his body (39,312 Ibs. per sq. ft.), he felt fine. "I felt no more effect from the helium," he says, "than I would from nitrogen at shallow depth. My mind was clear. I did the job I was sent down to do." His token job, to prove that...
...currently writing. The professor is suspicious, because his subject has been dead for a hundred years. A true historian, he says: "I, for example, never allow myself to be inspired. I burrow. . ." The play has a few serious overtones, resulting from the plight of a man inspired in spite of himself, but the style is always light and satiric in a capable translation by Stephen Gilman and Harry W. Rodgers...