Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the continuing upward trend in college costs, the applicant pool for the Class of 1981 is the largest in Harvard history. Obviously there are students whose parents are willing and able to pay for the Harvard mystique. But in spite of the University's lipservice to the ideal of diversity, the trend may transform the student body into more of an economic elite than it already...
...spite, or maybe because, of these preoccupations, Pumping Iron is an entertaining film that disappoints what would be common expectations for a bodybuilding flick. Although not a muscle beach spectacular featuring Mike Marvel and his "he-man" friends (in six weeks you can look like this or your money back), the film also would disappoint anyone hoping for an incisive psychological examination of why men would suffer so much pain to deform their bodies. In quasi-documentary form, Pumping Iron cleverly hypes bodybuilding and its main character, Arnold Schwarznegger...
...since then a great many related particles have been identified. During the past decade it has become apparent that those particles too are complex rather than elementary. They are now thought to be made up of the simpler things called quarks. A solitary quark has never been observed, in spite of many attempts to isolate one. Nevertheless, there are excellent grounds for believing they do exist. More important, quarks may be the last in the long series of progressively finer structures. They seem to be truly elementary...
...Crimson hoopsters finished second, losing badly to a taller, smoother Princeton team. One might think that loss destroyed the whole tournament for the Harvard women, but if we turn to the individuals, we can see how valuable the tournament was, in spite of the loss...
...nation has long suffered from lack of education, poor communications, inefficient bureaucracy and outright political corruption - all of which, in spite of the wealth of its natural resources, have kept Mexico from being as great or as well developed as it ought...