Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expected to fare very well, the freshmen team's play caught the complacent junior varsity off guard. In spite of dressing only 16 players, the freshmen very nearly pulled of the upset...
HALSMAN: My father wanted me to study medicine, but I thought that electrical engineering was the great profession of the future. After my father died, I went to Paris to continue my studies. Gradually, my slight interest in photography grew into a burning passion. Suddenly, I realized that, in spite of successfully passing all theoretical exams, I had not talent for the mechanical side of engineering. All my creative urges were stifled while I pursued my rather arid studies. At that time the social status of a photographer was not much higher than the status of a barber or waiter...
Darwin, in spite of his Victorian-era swing, was a leading amateur himself. He played in the 1921 British amateur in a field which included a contingent of eight Americans, one of whom was Bobby Jones. The British, who still dominated the game, were afraid one of the fine, young American golfers would snatch the AMateur crown...
...novelist simply had a knack for the commonplace, the down and out, the ironic humanity and atonal music of destitution. He loathed the stingy, petty-bourgeois tailoring trade of his parents, but in mimicking their gab and strut, he made them sympathetic and worthwhile in spite of himself and of them because he saw where they were authentic beneath their fraudulence. He found the poetry in a whore; for all the disgust, indifference and thoughtless obeisance to some purely sexual nerve communicated by the images, there is something totally absorbing in his spasmodic narrative. You just can't tell what...
...spite of the minor drawbacks, In These Times clearly has the potential to become a reputable leftist weekly. Some of its reporters and columnists are tops, and its list of sponsors is potentially a gold mine, if they actually come through with copy...