Word: spites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clock: In spite of rumors to the contrary, it is not easy to take four twelve o'clock courses. For those Spartan enough to get up at nine o'clock, the Social Relations department has an offering. The Ethnology of Native North America, Soc. Re1. 124, concerns, evidently, the people of America and Canada. Over in Harvard Hall 5 today's mind comes to grips with the New Testament, and Professor Buttrick with Dewey, Fromm, Eliot, and Sartre. The course is Humanities...
Cohen was almost even with Manhattan's Lou Knight, the heat's eventual winner, when he tripped and fell at the last hurdle. In spite of this mishap, Cohen picked himself up and finished second, but his time was too slow to qualify for the finals...
...timing, and his manner of self-expression, "but to allow these marginal comments to provoke us into denouncing the central burden of his argument-that peace has depended in the past and still depends on American willingness to fight-is to cut off England's nose to spite Dulles' face...
...Lilienthal. From Hobcaw Barony, his South Carolina plantation, Baruch retorted, "When the full story of the drafting of our atomic-energy proposals is made public, including all and not part of the facts in Mr. Truman's possession, history will show no basis for this display of personal spite." Actually, said Baruch, when he took on the atomic-control assignment and asked who was to make policy, "Mr. Truman made this exact and perhaps characteristic reply, 'Hell...
...spite of what may be called a broad style, Kokoschka is aware of details, even of what appear to be insignificant things like the way the line of the eyelid moves into the angle of the nose. Kokoschka explains, "I will teach them to see again; this is the faculty lost to modern society...