Word: spites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME-LIFE International was founded on the belief that there is "one world" of ideas and aspirations operating within (and often in spite of) the confines of national boundaries, that there existed an international family of potential TiME-readers who shared an intelligent curiosity about the affairs of man that cut across these boundaries...
...week. Two days before the election, he slipped on a slickly waxed floor in his seaside house and cracked a thighbone. Protesting that "these confounded elections are being held," he resisted treatment for a day, finally let surgeons operate and peg the break with a metal pin. But in spite of his troubles, Odría came out of the election fairly well...
...record. Integration at college level, therefore, really proves little by itself. The problem is a much more real one at the school level, where at least the educational and motivational factors can perhaps be straightened out, if not the economic. The Negro in an integrated college is there in spite of, not because of, his secondary school training...
...spite of the pressing need for an eighth house, a hygiene building, a theatre, and other improvements amounting to 40 million dollars, there has been a general tendency to feel that all was pretty much all right at Harvard, while all was not quite right with the world. Several sighs of relief were breathed throughout the year as people became increasingly aware of the passing of the McCarthy menace. We felt, however, that precautions must be taken for the future: Eisenhower's provision for an impartial board to handle security hearings was considered an improvement, but youthful and quite justifiable...
...hypocrisy, but this does not mean that they are the root of all prestige-consciousness. When one reads assertions as reck-less as these, it convinces him that id est, the Cambridge Review, is a good example of how un-repressive the University as Superego actually is. In spite of its pervading irrationality, however, i.e. has stimulated some thought, as well as disgust. It might be called a Good Thing, badly done...