Word: spites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Participation in the community service programs of Phillips Brooks House showed a marked comeback this year after slumping during 1957-58. Robert R. Little '60 estimated yesterday that the number of active members of P.B.H. "increased by 15 per cent to about 700," in spite of increasing demands upon the extra time of undergraduates...
Reluctant Progress. To the outside world, he is not nearly as well known as his two fellow Premiers. In spite of a spate of political scandals, U.S.-educated Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe remains the undisputed leader of the Eastern Region, is almost solely responsible for raising the Ibos from tribal backwardness to their present positions in government in the Eastern Region and in education. A British-educated barrister. Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Premier of the Western Region, runs the most efficient government of all. But the crucial fact remains that the Sardauna in the north rules a land of ancient walled cities...
Readers' comments on both sides were vitriolic. "You should not have tried to bribe her as you did, Master Fascist," two students proclaimed, while another began, "In spite of the sinister machinations of a number of self-styled groups which continue to slander Ernst Hanfstaengl...
...conclusion I would say by all means carry out your investigation. In spite of your open opposition to the Veritas Foundation I think you will find them most co-operative. I should be surprised if they took the Fifth Amendment even once...
...Repeatedly urged persons in charge of UN employment to hire a "notorious communist agent" in 1945, "in spite of the fact that there