Word: spites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Emphasizing the loss of practice time during the past few weeks, Brown said that "it takes 600 miles to propare for half an hour of competitive rowing" and in spite of the extended rowing sessions, the crew still has a long way to go. The half an hour of rowing mentioned by Brown is approximately the sum total of times for the 150's races...
Proposals which would have gone far towards this end were introduced, of course, in the Eightieth Congress, yet none of them succeeeded, in spite of Republican majorities in both houses. The Taft-Hartley Act, which emerged as the compromise, cast formidable new obstacles in the way of union organization and conferred advantages upon management vis-a-vis labor which had not been therefore a part...
...spite of its length and the slickness that sometimes makes it too neat, The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit is a good movie. It deals with Madison Avenue squarely and in its own terms; so that what the movie "says" has meaning for its subject. Once Gregory Peck is first shown on his commuter's train, the action devolops consistently out of itself, and the pleas for some kind of honesty or simplicity have a meaning for the people from whom they come...
...possible and in which there are already assistants, a double-lecture system might be most effective. It would require a great deal of unwonted pre-class preparation for students to learn facts now contained in expository lectures, and which would be excluded from shorter debate-type lectures. In spite of this inordinate demand, however, dialectic lectures in some cases might prove an interesting and fruitful experiment. They might also give lectures some advantage over reading besides dramatic coloration, thus providing a new justification for the existence of the lecture system...
...best time of the afternoon was made in the freshman meet by Yardling captain Don Stephenson as he traveled the slalom twice in 88.4 seconds. In spite of his time, Yale defeated the freshmen...