Word: spites
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...settled on the most prestigious of Harvard's literary magazines. The Advocate, clearly awaiting some celestial go-ahead, has yet to publish an issue of undergraduate writing this year. The Scorpion, which last year out-sold all its competitors in Cambridge, has also been struck dumb; and in spite of the Boston Review's cry that it is "on the move," its second issue has not appeared. Only The Island and the Winthrop House magazine. The Lion Rampant, have produced two issues, excellent ones at that...
...Crimson racketmen will play in Philadelphia tomorrow, and in spite of Coach Jack Barnaby's "Well take them as they come" attitude, the Penn game should be anticlimactic. Harvard will win easily, probably 9-0, unless the Navy match unnerves them...
...word "reforms" as an opening key to the public support. But actually they did not make any serious move to make reforms. The oligarchy was in power for about, what, thirty years. They didn't create those reforms they were claiming. They were always postponing the reforms in spite of the fact or because of the fact that they were always using the word "reforms" like a sort of a magic word, a sort of a charisma through myths such as reformism...
STUDENT: Sir, I can't tell you how pleased I am. I mean, my high school average is 65, I got straight Ds in mathematics, confuse the Norman Conquest with Dday, have a sub-average IQ, and got turned down by every other college in America. Yet in spite of all of this, you've accepted...
DEAN: Not in spite of it, boy! Because...