Word: spites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the great galaxies, thinly scattered through space, are fleeing from one another, scientists have tried to explain the expanding universe, or to explain it away. The most consistent theories postulate some strange, long-range force that operates only at enormous distances, pushing the galaxies apart in spite of the attraction of gravitation. But no one has measured this force or given a good reason why it should exist...
...burning a haystack, or "maliciously damaging a river bank" is still life imprisonment. But the maximum penalty for forcing a child to live in a brothel is six months, and having sexual intercourse with a child or maiming a person by reckless driving can bring only two years. In spite of gradual reforms, it is still worse to steal a dog (18 months) than to attack a neighbor (one year...
...spite of the fact that the CRIMSON poll or any other informal survey would indicate that Cambridge's undergraduates consider themselves a fairly pious lot, the nature of that piety raises serious questions as to whether any previous century might not have pronounced it tantamount to atheism. The explicit rejection of "all belief in anything that could reasonably be called `god'" as "a fiction unworthy of worship" proved to be the least popular alternative offered by the questionnaire, but a clear plurality of the votes went to "a God about Whom nothing definite can be affirmed except that I sometimes...
...spite of the rain and the defeat of the home team in its last game of the season, the spirits of several thousand Williams reunion-bound alumni did not suffer, since most left before the end of the third inning. The pageantry and parading (including the jazz band of '34 and a bicycle-built-for-six manned by the class of '39) failed to inspire the Williams, squad, which committed five errors and managed only six hits off the pitching of Byron Johnson...
...Simon & Schuster; $3.95). Though some of it covers the same ground Sister traveled in her own autobiographical story, Gypsy,* which appeared in a musical version on Broadway last week (see THEATER), the book is a remarkable show-business document that might better be titled "How to Make Good in Spite of Mother, Men and Marathons...