Word: spites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elementary school population has doubled to 132,000 in the last decade, and 6,000 pupils now attend school only half a day. The North Palos Park school must use its gym as a classroom, has had to cut out kindergarten to make room for first-graders, and in spite of the fact that many classes have topped the 40-pupil mark, the school is on double shift. Palatine's pupils have overflowed into St. Paul Evangelical and Reformed Church, those in Park Forest are using private houses, and those in Markham have taken over three half-basements...
...intellectual world of Paris, which is both hothouse and hotbed, the Catholics are often admired as novelists in spite of their message. For the dominant mood of St. Germain-des-Prés is Doubt, not Faith...
...other movement since the rise of Christianity . . ."he said. "I am convinced that a synthesis of the two faiths is possible and will eventually bring blessings to the entire human race . . . Is [Communism] Christian? I say 'yes,' as I did 50 years ago. Russia . . . has, in spite of all her faults, founded her economy on a Christian theory...
...practice, some places would get much more radioactivity, perhaps an amount quickly fatal in spite of precautions. Others would get less...
...while we resist, let us do everything we can-not because of the Supreme Court but in spite of the Supreme Court-to raise the cultural and educational levels of all of our people. We should continue to do our utmost to assure education for every child, white and colored alike...